Making a difference...One Starfish at a time

Our family started fostering back in 2005. We have been blessed to love on many babies. There has been many twists and turns throughout our journey and in December of 2010 we were called for placement of a newborn baby boy. His biological mother worked a case plan for 18 months and after 23 months she surrendered her rights and we adopted 'Sprout' in December of 2012. Our faith has been tried and tested and we are still certain that God is faithful!

February 1, 2010

It never ends.

Yesterday, I found out that Baby 'C's bio mom is pregnant. This will make a total of 6 kids (none of which she has custody of). Last I knew she was living in the next state over comes back to this area OFTEN {daily} because she "didn't know anyone over there". Then WHY did she move, you ask?? {I KNOW you REALLY wanna know this}. Because (I KNOW you're NOT supposed to start a sentence with because...BUT this situation calls for it!) Anyway...BECAUSE she cannot qualify for social services in our state anymore. She tapped them out!!! When I saw her back in November she mentioned that Baby 'C's bio father is still in prison and wasn't being released until later this Spring (2010). She also mentioned that she hadn't seen him (bio dad) since he left for prison May 2009 that she wanted to have another baby. I guess she didn't want to wait for bio dad to get out of jail. :P About a month ago my hubby saw her walking through town with a HUGE black eye and I was told (by my source) that she also had strangulation marks on her neck. Not sure what I should do with this info. Do I contact D*S*S? The supervisor that placed Baby 'C' with us is no longer working there. Do I contact Baby 'C's adoptive parents to see if they're willing to adopt another baby so we can make sure the kids are all together?? Do I just sit here and wonder how this whole thing will play out??? Ok, yup! That's what I'll do. :)

Read about a shortened version of Baby 'C's life in foster care ... Scroll down to the archives to June 1, 2009. There are 4 or 5 posts about our time with him.

1 comment:

Beck G. said...

Ahh thats hard. That's how we feel about Roland and any future siblings that Patty may have. The fact that Roland and Patty have the same mom AND dad is very rare for social services! And their bio mom is only 22!