Joseph is Home

We got the Phone call from the nurse today that we have been waiting for for 1 week and 6 days, The doctor has written discharge papers. I can not tell you how excited I was!!!! Just this time 2 weeks ago David and I had been discussing taking him to the hospital. I can not believe how long ago that seems. When having a son a child taken from your home, makes everything different. The days seemed to take to long and I was constantly relying on my Father in Heaven for gudiance and strength to get our family through this trial. Also so Joseph would feel of our love for him. I felt so relieved to know that he was now on his way home!!!! While he was in the hospital he went through some intense anger management classes with other children his age. These kids had 4 groups a day where they would work on goals and discuss ways that they could control them selves. We have a lot of learning to still do, and as we are consistent we will prevail!!!! As a family we have decieded to do a family group nightly. This consists of making a daily goal to work on for each of us. We write each of our goals on a paper that goes on the fridge for the day. We then go around the table and say one nice thing about each other, in creative ways not always the same way. Tonight we went around the table and the person they were sitting next to had to say something nice to them each taking a turn. After that we sing a song and then read scriptures as a family. We have a prayer song "Let us Gather in a Circle and Kneel in Family Prayer" Then we pray. We then have Story time and bed. The kids are all in bed by 8:30 and then the house is pretty quiet. Although we are still going rounds with Michael trying to get him to fall asleep. Crazy kid just can not settle down and fall asleep. It is a work in progress with him. Any ways we will have a fun time with this more structured evening I hope. We have already been doing Prayer Scriptures and Stories so there are just a few add ins. My goal is to help the other kids under stand the need for Joseph to have a very structured routine. That is it for now