Well, that didn't last long...
Friend's father brought difficult child home last night. husband met them outside and he said the father "looked like a man on a mission".
And some light was shed on the reason they were suddenly in a rush to bring difficult child home...
Evidently, the father got up in the middle of the night to find difficult child and a 20-something guy in the living room - the story gets a little vague there....not sure who the 20-something was....what exactly was happening...
And you really have to feel bad for the poor man...trying to stick to all the usual niceties "Your daughter is a lovely girl....we really enjoyed having her...etc" while at the same time blustering about "I just can't have THAT in my house!"
difficult child was not at ALL happy to be home.
But husband was very firm. He would not let her in the house until she apologized and agreed to his terms. difficult child stood there arguing....could not BELIEVE that husband would not let her in...or even stand in the garage when it started storming.
But eventually, he let her in the house.
This morning, Ms Ally came to work with us...
difficult child was still pretty cocky. Explained how unreasonable we were being. Told Ms Ally that, well, legally, there's nothing Mom and Dad can really do - so what's the point of threatening to throw me out?
Ms Ally explained that husband can go to DCFS and surrender difficult child to the state.
And BOY did THAT ever have an impact.
Right now...difficult child is in her bedroom removing the posters from the walls and cleaning out a lot of her stuff - so that she can make the repairs husband wants.
Well, well, well...
I guess we'll see how long that lasts...
Friend's father brought difficult child home last night. husband met them outside and he said the father "looked like a man on a mission".
And some light was shed on the reason they were suddenly in a rush to bring difficult child home...
Evidently, the father got up in the middle of the night to find difficult child and a 20-something guy in the living room - the story gets a little vague there....not sure who the 20-something was....what exactly was happening...
And you really have to feel bad for the poor man...trying to stick to all the usual niceties "Your daughter is a lovely girl....we really enjoyed having her...etc" while at the same time blustering about "I just can't have THAT in my house!"
difficult child was not at ALL happy to be home.
But husband was very firm. He would not let her in the house until she apologized and agreed to his terms. difficult child stood there arguing....could not BELIEVE that husband would not let her in...or even stand in the garage when it started storming.
But eventually, he let her in the house.
This morning, Ms Ally came to work with us...
difficult child was still pretty cocky. Explained how unreasonable we were being. Told Ms Ally that, well, legally, there's nothing Mom and Dad can really do - so what's the point of threatening to throw me out?
Ms Ally explained that husband can go to DCFS and surrender difficult child to the state.
And BOY did THAT ever have an impact.
Right now...difficult child is in her bedroom removing the posters from the walls and cleaning out a lot of her stuff - so that she can make the repairs husband wants.
Well, well, well...
I guess we'll see how long that lasts...