update :

the parents each have representation. well had. both lawyers quit the case due to not ever being able to reach their clients. the parents have 10 more days to file and appeal but to do that they'd have to take the initiative to call and ask for new lawyers. So the chances of that are zilch.

and for the past 2 years, DCFS and Help at Home (another org) have been coordinating weekly visits with the parents and kids. someone comes and picks up the kids and takes them to DCFS and will also pick up the parents if they need to and then there is a 1-2 hr visit (monitored). There is a bit of work involved by all partie including my wifes and she has to get everything ready, packs a snack and anything else that is needed (the parents are supposed to bring all of this but they usually don't and if they do its a bag of cheetos and pop....for a 3 yr old) . And the parents only show up like 20% of the time. and yet these planned out visits persisted. Sometimes the kids will be at DCFS, sometimes it will get canceled before the people pick them up. Its a complete waste of time as the mother just basically sits on her phone even if she does show up.

Here is a side note : often times H@H will call us and ask if they can switch the time around from here on out because it doesn't work with the moms schedule....my wife is like, what schedule they have no job they have nothing going on! H@H is like oh yeah. I'm like they are just fucking with everyone.

They haven't shown up for the past 5 weeks...to see their 5 mo old child. Well H@H basically said we are done. We refuse to schedule weekly meetings any longer. if the parents want to set up a visit they can call us. And our caseworkers boss is basically like yeah I've had it. Visits have to be made available but they don't have to actively schedule them.

Have a 1995 Pearl Jam tour poster that I kept in a tube for 20 years and then framed it up 5 years ago. After my divorce i had it hanging in my living room for a while but when I got re-married my wife convinced me it was more of a man cave type picture. If you ever see it you would know what she means, as it has like a guy holding a couple of snakes with another one wrapped around his neck. Anyway I joined a Facebook group and asked around to see how much it might be worth. Got a guy who is interested and now just trying to see if we can work out an agreement and way to get it to him. Kind of sad to sell it but if this guy gives me $600 cash for a poster I paid maybe $15 for, I really can't argue. One of the few times that holding onto shit forever and trying to take care of it might actually pay off. ha ha It is the internet though so I'm aware this could fall through at any moment.

Have a week T-Bone, over $500 in golf balls and a poster for $600. Maybe that can pay for some of all the work on the new house over the past year.

I'm not sure it will even buy two new windows. Thanks a lot Hawg.... Actually if I sell this thing I think I am going to sock the money away and plunk it down on a couple of rounds of golf in North Carolina in the spring. Maybe even just one round at Pinehurst #2. Big bucket list item for me.