Brandi and I met with my therapist today. Throughout this ordeal he has always been very supportive, and today was no different. While his hands are tied by what BC is going to allow, he said what he wants to do is move us to the point of family reunification. What that means practically are a couple of things:

- Regular individual meetings with him, to work on "therapy stuff."

- Eventually, a passed poly. He said he won't be able to do anything without a passed poly to work with.

With those things in place, at some point in the near future he'd be able to help me approach the BC authorities to allow for written contact, then verbal contact, and so on. The feeling we got from him was that he didn't want the process to drag on forever, but that we're going to have to give it a little time. It doesn't look like there's a quick fix anytime in the future.

So we're left wondering if it's still worth it to attempt to petition the court via an attorney, sans my therapist's support. Of course, if all goes well, we'll have his support in due time, and that would make matters easier, I'm sure. Regardless, we're planning on at least talking to attorney, to see what our current legal options are.

In other matters, a few people have inquired about our automobile situation. Right now the Suburban runs just fine, it simply doesn't want to start sometimes. :-) Through a friend's advice, we contacted Ed Espinosa at the church. Apparently he's started a ministry through the church where he works on cars for a nominal fee. I told him my car's symptoms, and he's relatively certain it's my fuel pump. He said if I bought the fuel pump, he'd install it in exchange for me taking some photos for him -- sounds like a great deal to me! Of course, now I need to locate a fuel pump, so we're not out of the woods yet. I'll keep everyone posted.