January 20, 2010 – LOCK UP
01/20/2010
(Real-time entry)
I am still under the weather but I am slowly healing, both emotionally and physically. My medications (from my ER visit 9 days ago) have been downgraded, and now I am working on getting my voice back after a serious head cold struck next.
So even though I’m not yet totally “back”, I wanted to post an entry today with the latest news: The in-home care workers who “allegedly” robbed us had their arraignment today… and we are goin’ to trial! 🙂
The defendants were each held over with $100,000 bond and spent their day being led in handcuffs from jail to jail! I hope they had a VERY LONG DAY. As of writing this, I have not received word of them posting bond. I hope that their families choose to or are forced to leave them in jail for the next 2 weeks leading up to their February 1st preliminary hearing. I think a couple of weeks in lock-up would do them some good. Let them REALLY THINK about what they did to one of the nicest, most loving households in America!
As I walked into the courthouse this morning, I was calm and all business. Waiting together in the courtroom hallway with my mom and Uncle Al, we were physically close to AJ and Matt (the two suspects) for about an hour. I know my mother found pleasure in finally being able to “look them in the eyes”. I kept to myself. When our case was called, my family took the front row and I reached in my purse for my good luck charm. I pulled out my little red teddy bear, Sparky, and Mom and I held hands during the case with Sparky amidst our fingers. While we all waited for the judge to review their file, the courtroom became very quiet. In the silence I closed my eyes and said a prayer. I said, God, if there is yet ANOTHER lesson for me to learn here with this one, then let it be. But I truly think that the lesson this time is for THEM. You decide and let the lesson unfold as it should. With that, I opened my eyes, the case unfolded, and they were held over for trial with a nice sized bond! Walking out of the courthouse, a small piece of justice seemed to glitter through the gray morning skies.
Part of me is excited that we’re going to trial! And, without a doubt, part of me is relieved that this was not yet another lesson for ME after the long three-year pile of lessons I’ve waded through. I’m tired, I’ve changed for the better, I’m clear, I get it. Let’s move on. Let’s let ME move on. It’s time.
With my dad proverbially locked up and now these boys in jail, it leaves me out here FREE and feeling that there is SO MUCH ahead for me to accomplish! Making my movie, making a difference in people’s lives, making a difference in the world, meeting new friends, reconnecting with old ones, falling in love, discovering new beginnings and – oh, yes – that sensation of adventure and true happiness blended together as one! Ahhhhh… I can’t wait to have THAT weightless feeling again.
NOTE: Because WDIV-Channel 4-Detroit covered our robbery story exclusively on December 17, 2009, they posted an article update today on their site. However, because the WDIV website is constantly updated, this story may move again which will make this link invalid: