If any of you have seen on national news, the entire state of WV has been out of school for 9 days due to a teacher strike.  

A deal has finally been reached and they will return tomorrow or Thursday.  This doesn't just help teachers, but all state employees, like me, are getting a raise.  This is huge because other than a $504 raise we received 2 years ago, this is the first state wide raise in 10 or 11 years.  At the same time, insurance costs have skyrocketed.

We are leaving for the beach next week. We have a dog, so we needed someone to come and let out and feed for 4 days. My DD said she would do it, but I didn't want to burden her since its a long drive from her house to our house and she has a 2yo DD and a puppy herself.

So DSO and I were trying to think of someone else closer. The dog is a 100lb German Shepherd, so it had to be someone the dog knew.

My DSOs brother, Bro3, passed away unexpectedly last week. DSO and his Bro3 are tight, they were the 2 youngest of 5 kids. DSO relied on Bro3 a lot for guidance, fixing stuff, borrowing stuff and Bro3 helped pay the atty retainer for DSOs divorce when BM moved in internet lover man.

SS15 was sent to a high level psyche place/group home. The state basically stripped all of DSOs and BMs rights and took full custody. It really had to do more with BM than DSO. They told DSO if he wasn't working and could care for SS 24/7, he could've stayed with him. I won't allow it bc of the past when SS15 was in my home full time. He was deliberately trying to get me to kick DSO out so DSO could go back to BM...it was something BM put in the childs head. All this did, was send SS to juvie/group homes for 2.5 years now.