I am making precisely the lack of progress that I should have expected with the county’s Legal Aid services, trying to obtain the guardianship over my oldest son that was suggested to me by his developmental pediatrician before he turns eighteen years old. That isn’t exactly something that you can do pro se because the proposed ward requires their own lawyer, so I might have to settle for competency forms being filled out and placed in my son’s medical record for… whenever the time does come, because his developmental pediatrician is retiring at the end of the year, right around when my son turns eighteen. I’m in the process of appealing the initial denial of services (“because they don’t have enough people on staff to take my case”, or whatever it was that they said in their closing letter to me), and I’ll periodically continue to apply until this guardianship thing is sorted out. I know that I’ll have to do it for both of the boys when they reach adulthood, and I really should have expected this to be exactly as exasperating as it is. Will we still be living in Texas when all of this is sorted out? That remains to be seen, because Texas is one of like four states that doesn’t have interstate guardianship… pacts, or whatever it is those are called, although applying for this in another state will be little more than a formality once I’ve been granted it to begin with. I just need to be granted it.

This is one of the most magical and whimsical pictures of either kid that I have ever gotten. I just love it!