Bubble burst

I'm afraid Vincent's reverted a little back to old form this weekend - leaving the house early Saturday without going to help out with the church art and plant sale (which he had told Ian he would help with) without finishing his laundry and cleaning his room (as he'd told us he'd done) - and then staying gone for 30 hours - without taking his medication - until we came to pick him up and he complained and made us wait. (Stephanie also had to mow the lawn again this weekend partly because he did a mediocre job earlier this week - She's pictured above following up with pruning, with Frisco.) It was back to picking him up between Halloween and St. Patrick's Day, which I hated. Stephanie said it reminded her of picking Vincent up at his father's - waiting, not knowing if there was going to be a confrontation, not knowing if he was really going to come with us - which we used to do when we lived in Ohio, also, every Sunday afternoon. Vincent asked why we were picking him up early, and I said it was because he hadn't done his laundry or cleaned his room or taking his medication. (He also was hot from going on a walk with his friend in 90 degree weather with the black T-shirt and black jeans he had put on Saturday morning.) But it was also because that's when we were driving through and I figured - correctly - that having gotten up early Saturday morning (inexplicably) and probably gotten little sleep Saturday night, he was probably exhausted (and if he slept that off Monday and Tuesday and did 0 hours of school work, instead of his usual 2 hours - that wouldn't be good). Also - he originally had talked about doing something with a different Sam, a friend he hasn't hung out with that much lately, and I thought we'd get him back for that. Of course, although we've cleaned up the house (except for his room), we unfortunately had a hot house for him to return to - our main central A/C is ailing, and we hadn't had his unit A/C on in his absent - and, I'm sure with two days near 90 degrees it was blazing up there when we got home. We haven't exited him from our home or sent him off to the juvenile center yet.

P.S. Vincent's been asleep for five hours since we got home, which he apparently needed.

-- Perry