A Possible Homecoming Date

We talked this morning with Brandi, Caroline's psychologist at Meridell Achievement Center. She said that she felt it was time to schedule a departure date for her, that she had really accomplished her treatment goals there. We suspected that she was going to tell us that, so it came as no surprise. However, instead of coming home at the end of August, say the last weekend, she is likely coming home in two weeks, on the 21st! The reason is that the school she will most likely be attending starts up September 1st, not September 8th, as I had thought. We feel she needs to have at least a week at home to adjust to being here again before starting up school. The school at Meridell starts back up in full swing August 20th, so we figured that my husband would fly out on the 20th and have a final meeting with Brandi, and fly back with Caroline on the 21st.

I was expecting about three or four more weeks before she came back, or more, so now we have to hustle and finish painting her room! And the other kids will need time to process this new information and prepare for her homecoming too.

I am sure when Caroline finds out on Tuesday about her impending departure, she will be over the moon.