GAL

We go to meet the G. A. L. today. She is a grandmother who shares custody of her grandchildren. That may help or hurt us; Maybe she feels grandparents are entitled to those rights, maybe she feel imposed upon... there is no way to know.

James didn't allow for much free time this weekend to prepare so while he was at work yesterday, I took the time to go through all of our paperwork and get it organized. This morning I am printing out info that I found regarding her sister... it show's more assaults and one instance of public drunkeness. There's not a lot on her but something is better than nothing.

We are taking the girls to my mother for the afternoon so that we can really talk to this lady and not just chase the two year old around her office. While we are there, we are hoping to use thier copier and make photo copies of all of the paperwork that we are presenting the G.A.L. Some of what we have right now are just originals and we don't want to loose them.

They say that 15 days a month is hard to do but we should get at least standard visitation. That would be an improvement but that's not what we want. We want full custody. Based on what we are going to be presenting today, I don't see any reason why she would get custody other than the fact that his school is based on her address. We can drive him to school or get him into a better school based on our address, he should go to Nichols Hill Elementary if we have custody. We will do whatever she thinks is best as far as that goes. But one big plus for us having custody is that he has to share a room with his mom at her house. We have reason to believe that she dresses and undresses in front of him and he's just too old for that. Also, has she taken a pledge of abstinence? What about when she has a boyfriend over? Does Christian get sent to the couch? Does he lay there and listen? Does she go to the guy's house? If she's not even at home overnight, there is no reason that Christian shouldn't be with his Daddy.

They said she should make a decision this week. IF we end up with visitation only, we want it clearly defined with drop off and pick up dates, times and locations. And we want to start with Spring Break, next week.

I am just about done with everything I know that James wants me to get together for this afternoon. When he wakes up, I will find out if he wants me to burn all of the video's and recordings that we have made for her to listen to. I think that they prove she has no intention of being cooperative and is more concerned with hurting James than doing what's right for Chrisitian.