I haven't actually had voice-to-voice or written communication with my children in nearly two weeks. Please pray for Nathan, Daniel, Abigail, and Evangeline.

We've put some feelers out to some attorneys to see about petitioning the judge for some sort of contact, but so far we haven't made much progress. I'm sure much of that is due to the fact that Brandi is going non-stop at home, and I've been snowed under at work, so there isn't much time (or energy) at the end of each day to pursue legal counsel.

I did, however, talk to my probation-provided therapist on Tuesday, and told him about our plan to talk to the kids about the situation (so far they don't have a clue), and our plan to petition the judge for some sort of contact.

On the petitioning the judge situation, the therapist recommended I wait a few weeks (months?) so that I can have a few more meetings with him, and that way he would feel comfortable offering his support when I petition the judge. He said the judge in question is usually pretty tough on these types of cases, and the implication was that my chances would be better if I had him (the therapist) on my side. So now the questions are: Do we petition the judge anyway? Or wait a few weeks to see if we can get the therapist on board with us?

With regard to telling the kids about the situation, he also recommended that we wait to tell the kids until he can have a session (within a week or so, hopefully) with both Brandi and me, to talk about how we plan to tell the kids and what we plan to tell them. We're not under any obligation to obey the therapists advice, but we certainly want to make the right decision. If we hold off until Brandi and I can see the therapist, it might be another week or two until we can tell the kids what the situation is. The downside of that is they were used to me calling them and writing them, and now all of that has dried up, and pretty soon they're going to start wondering why.

Once again, we have plenty to pray for. Thanks again to all of you who keep up with our situation, pray with us, love us, and walk with us. We truly love all of you.