Thank you for asking after us!!
We're all okay. easy child is gone to holiday to the other side of the country until July 20 with her bio dad and step mom. difficult child is respecting staying home and inside. He has gone to a friends several times but always picked up by car at the door, driven home to door, calls when arriving there, calls when heading home so we can watch for him etc.
We ventured out to grocery shop the other night, quite late, at a all night grocery store. Today we had no choice, we need to do banking, I needed things at the pharmacy and we ALL needed to feel the summer sun and some fresh air! We locked the house, let someone know where we were going and how long we'd be. Stuck together and we watchful coming back to the street and into the house. Paranoid? Maybe. But this guy is a lunatic and I can't see any of us letting our guard down.
So far its been a quiet couple of days. I'm a smoker and I have a place that sells cheap smokes (I'm native, a reserve nearby delivers from the reserve prices to native people off reserve at tax free prices). So my delivery gal brought a carton of smokes today and oddly she delivers to psycho too. She brought HIM up and had some creepy things to say, I filled her in the jist of whats going on around here. Other than her, we've tried to not talk much about this for a couple of days. It has helped us relax and get some good rest and sleep. From when this happened, we had stayed up with not one wink of sleep for 4 nights so much was happening constantly. That is NOT okay. So we are working to balance caution and safety with maintaining normalcy and not feeling too angry at feeling trapped in a our home like it's a prison. It's weird. It's like we're in some weird t.v. movie where people go into hiding. We feel hunted kinda.
But I'm glad to say we're sleeping. We are laughing at our normal silly jokes. We're having movie marathons and playing board games to stay busy.
Counting the days to eviction and his final move out date, then hoping a judge with some kahona's holds him without bail on charges. Not likely on the bail issue, I'd love to change the laws round here, but will never happen. But I'm holding hope until the day comes where a judge hears why we want bail denied. Maybe luck will find us.
Thank you for asking once again. It's wonderful to feel thought of and supported. Its by far the worst week of our lives
Melissa
PS. S/O's eye is still scary as heck and I want to bawl looking him straight on, but some of his facial bruising etc is healing. I'm thankful for that small grace.