Resurfaced...again!

So bio-dad has contacted the CM once again for a visit.  He hasn't visited in over 2 months!!!  I hate that he can disappear for months and then just pop back into the picture, ask for a visit and be granted it the next day. I asked the question of whether it will be unsupervised (as before) or if it will be supervised since he's been acting so flaky and weird lately!  Of course I got no response.  It will be most likely be unsupervised because it would be too much of an inconvenience for her to supervise the visit.  I feel so sorry for baby and these people that just keep popping in and out of his life :(  Couple that with another 6 hour visit with aunt/uncle on Sat!  The things that STINK about foster care!

Beach

Hubby shot this pic of Baby and I at the beach last week.  I love how it's so natural and how he is completely at ease :)  it was a blissful afternoon!  I am trying to get more shots of us together just in case the worst outcome happens.  I'm usually the one behind the camera!

It's never too late

Check out this link to a sweet story of how this couple postponed retirement to help children in foster care :)

http://www.momlifetoday.com/2012/05/goodbye-empty-nest/

New nephew!!

I know a few of you follow my sister's blog already so you probably already know, but I am an aunt again...for the 15th time! lol!  Josiah was born last night weighing in at 8lbs 9oz.  I've seen a picture and he's a chunk!  I can't share the pic yet because she hasn't had a chance to post anything yet...that would be a bad sister-lol!  Josiah has some very serious health issues and his birth parents have had two children before him die with the same issue.  If you remember their journey with Selah, it's very similar to her.  They don't know how long Josiah will live....it could be a week, a month, or a year or more!  They have stepped out in faith and said YES to this child.  The song I posted last week "All of me" speaks to this exact situation!  Please pray for Josiah, my sister Kim, her husband Ben and their 11 other blessings!

Meeting

I just got off the phone with Baby's biological brother's adoptive mom :)  He is the one child no family member fought for.  What a lucky kid! lol!  Anyway, I have been wanting to get together with his mom to chat and of course to get the boys together.  She'll be coming over to our house on Friday and then we will head to the park here at our HOA.  I am really excited to pick her brain about the aunt/uncle and see what their relationship is like after "B's" adoption.  "B" was there last Sat. but I am wondering how often they see him.  Of course we are willing to keep the sibling relationship going IF we are to adopt Baby, but at the same time thinking of having the aunt/uncle in our lives over the next (at least) 17 years isn't my happiest thought-lol!  "B" lives about 15 min. from here and his adoptive mom seems like a really neat lady. I think we will end up having a lot in common but I think I can also learn a lot from her as well.  She's from Barbados originally and I love her accent :)

What it's like to be a foster parent

http://www.christianalliancefororphans.org/2012/04/20/what-it%E2%80%99s-like-to-be-a-foster-parent/

TPR?!

As you all know, the plan has been for quite some time (the agency's plan that is) to have the judge grant PG to the aunt/uncle and for baby to leave our home.  The GAL's plan (which like much better!) is to fight for TPR.  Well, apparently the agency got notification that they are attempting to get TPR and so now the legal dept. wants them to try that avenue FIRST!  The CM is totally confident that it will not happen.  Haha...she doesn't know that my GOD is bigger than her little plans and if HE wants it to happen then it will!!! :-)

She came for her monthly visit yesterday.  We were scheduled for 3pm.  She arrived at 5:25.  Yep...dinnertime.  Love it! (ick!)  She KNOWS that we want to adopt baby, but she acted like we've never had that conversation before.  "So if TPR did happen to be granted then would you be interested in adopting?" Uuummm....let me think about that...YES!!!!!!!!!!!!  I am praying that since we have had him for so long that we would be considered first for adoption, but in all reality with a judge that is very "pro-bio-family" it is quite possible she could order that he go to the aunt/uncle.  GOD's WILL BE DONE!

Still no word from bio-dad.  I guess the CM tried to call the number he called from a couple weeks back and the person who answered said that they didn't know him and he certainly wasn't the person who owned that phone.  I know the last # that I have for him has been disconnected.  So....we wait another 34 days till court.  Can you tell I'm a bit intense about this court date?

Last night I had a dream where I was being weighed in for something and my BMI was being measured as well.  I stepped on the scale (looking as I do IRL right now) and looked over at my BMI to see the #64.  I was flabbergasted!  My weight read 113 (NOT what I really am, but I am also no where near a BMI of 64!)  I think I'm feeling a bit "weighted" and imbalanced with this case right now!  Time to trim some fat! :)