The hoarder house
So, I just slept for 16 hours straight. No, really, I did! Of course this is after being up for 36 hours and sleeping little the days before that. I just am not sleeping well. I go through periods like this where sleep is elusive. Why?
Well, this resent bought has been brought on by my right knee wishing to separate from my body, by swelling the joints involved until everything just pops apart, kind of like an action figure being torn apart by an angry tot.
This summer has been a very strange one for the weather. It can’t seem to make up its mind as to if it is going to be hot, rainy, muggy, cold or whatever. Usually by now we have been in the hundreds for weeks. This year the temperature has been bouncing up and down hot then cold, repeat. Making all of my joints swell. It really sucks.
Plus I have been working a lot. I am doing a lot of Family.preservation.work. trying to keep families that are having issues together. Or trying to keep kids in a good foster home, there rather than returning to a dysfunctional family. I am always amazed at what the courts consider and appropriate environment.
I currently am working with a family where the elderly Aunts of this 10-year-old have taken her in the last time her mother was arrested. For testing positive for meth, while drunk driving. With a suspended license. Again.
The expectation was that they would keep track of the child until her grandmother could come and get her. Well, when Gma finally showed up, the child was already ‘in the system’, and until an agreement can be made with the state she lives in, the child stays here. Period. So the Aunts have had her for the last 7 months.
I was brought in to help the Aunts and the child get along and establish some rules and order in the house. I think that I have accomplished much of what needed to be done. However, there is one issue that I am having a terrible time resolving. The Aunts are hoarders. In the process of trying really really hard to reform, but hoarders none the less.
The garage is jam-packed full of crap. plus a car that hasn’t been driven in 20+ years owned by the Aunt that doesn’t have a license. A truck in the front driveway, with 10 years expired tags, that apparently don’t belong to that car anyway. No body really knows who the car belongs too since it was parked there 3+ year ago, and is filled with clothes and misc. house hold stuff. The bottom apartment is also full of crap. Basically impassable.
Did I mention the possum that might be living in the garage?
The upstairs is better. Except the smell. I think that possibly the rest of the possums family died in the house and are still there somewhere. The fireplace was full a garbage, that was going to be burned until another one of the Aunts said that she didn’t think the chimney worked. The 10 year-old has been sleeping on a couch, as has the Aunt that lives down stairs.
The house could not pass a health and safety. They gave us a month to get the upstairs in a livable condition. That month is up. The upstairs has been ‘cleaned’. The living room floor was shampooed within an inch of its life. the fireplace has been cleaned. The walls have been washed. it smells much better! But we can’t get rid of the flies!
The bedroom for the 10-year-old has been cleaned out, repainted, floor scrubbed and she has a new bed/mattress/sheets, etc.
The hallway has been cleared and painted. The kitchen has been scrubbed.
The garage has had a good start to being cleaned out. I suggested that we should rent a dumpster and just spend a day hauling crap out. I was vetoed. Plus after figuring out the concrete funds budget, I realized we couldn’t. Instead we have 6 industrial size garbage cans that are filled every week.
I have been at the house so much, I am tired of being there. But I see the progress that has been made.
But is it enough?
If it isn’t, this little girl is going to eventually go back to her Meth addicted mother. Did I mention that she is a registered sex offender? Yeah, she was sent to jail for luring girls, as young as 13, into posing for nude pictures, and drugging them so that they could be filmed being raped by her partner, a 38-year-old man who paid her in, can you guess? Meth.
Mom is a real piece of work. She has already stated that as soon as the little girl gets her period she is going to put her on the pill so she can start having sex. which is considered statutory rape in this state, and, surprise! what the mom was put in jail for doing in the first place.
Gma agree’s with mom. Nothin’ wrong with letting the girl have sex at as early an age as she wishes. After all that is precisely what she is currently pressuring the 15-year-old that she has custody of to do. The child has stated that she wants to remain a virgin until she marries and has taken a lot of flack from Gma for her ridiculous beliefs.
Seriously? Am I the only one that see’s a problem here?
Shhh.... I have a secret 
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