Drama Drama

Since my last post I have become the Grammy to Little Baby C!  She is 3 months old now and the joy of my  life.  She is one of the few things right now that is good in my life.  Wish I could say the same thing about her mother.  :(

There has been so much Mama Drama!  The first few weeks after Baby C was born I thought L had grown up and was making strides towards being a responsible grown-up.  Then her friends started coming around and bringing bottles of alcohol.  Then she went back to smoking cigarettes.  Then, even though she had stated she was going to quit so she could get a better job, she went back to smoking marijuana.  Just because it's legal now in WA State doesn't mean employers are going to look the other way if you pop positive. 

Then she started asking me to babysit on Friday nights - I didn't have a problem with that because I liked having some one on one time with my grand-baby without her mother looking over my shoulder making me feel like I didn't know what I was doing.  Then that turned into Friday overnights - and eventually I turned into the weekend Nanny.

The major drama happened last weekend though.  L went to a friends house to hang out - I was taking care of Baby C.  Phone rings at 1:30 am - those calls are never good and this one held to that.  L had been in an accident with my car.  She first started out saying someone hit her and drove away.  The police showed up and she said she would call back to let me know what was going on.  Next call came from a witness - she told me that L had been arrested and that there was no other car involved in the accident.  Next call was from a Detective with the Sammamish Police Department to let me know that L was being processed for DUI and would be transferred to the Issaquah Jail, my car was being towed to Redmond and it was probably totaled. 

L called me Sunday morning from the jail wanting me to bail her out.  Not gonna happen and I am proud to say it didn't happen!  She stayed in jail until Tuesday when she was arraigned at Issaquah Court.  She is now wearing a SCRAM Bracelet on her ankle to measure whether she has any alcohol at all.  If it goes off - she will owe big money that she can't afford and will probably end up back in jail.

I am now in the process of working with my insurance company to get my car replaced.  There have already been some interesting things with that which I will write about tomorrow.  In the meantime - I am going to go to bed and hope I am not woken up by another 1:30 am call.

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