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!

June 12, 2012

Agency worker was on vacation this week.  He called early this morning to tell me that bio mom called for a visit.  We had our regular morning schedule...get Sprout up early so he can fit a nap in this busy day.  Agency worker came to pick him up a bit early to catch up on the week.  I told him about her pregnancy and how there was only 1 visit last week.  I woke Sprout up and got him dressed.  I said goodbye and started counting down the hours till he came home again.  The agency worker called me 25 minutes after they left to tell me he was bringing Sprout home.  We he got here I was told that bio mom was indeed there and answered the door with "I didn't call you to confirm".  There were also 2 men there with her. The agency worker asked if she was pregnant and surprisingly she admitted it.   The  worker said that the call must have been from last week and when his phone was turned on it refreshed the call.  He was very apologetic to inconvenience us.  So yes, she was there and AGAIN chose a man over her son.  The county worker said that the county lawyer is not ready to regress on visits so they'll build their case on situations like these.  I am sure that if they approach her with intentions on TP*R then she'll surrender and visits will cease.  Her focus is clearly on the new baby...just like every other time. 

1 comment:

MamaFoster said...

if the judge heard that I think they would stop visits and grant TPR as soon as the county files for it as long as they have their ducks in a row. it is annoying that a good decision needs so much work to back it up.

i wish they would keep taking him there on the days she is supposed to have visits so that there would be a LONG history of her rejecting this kid AT HER DOOR so they could get this case over with. what a sad sad situation...so glad that he has been living most of his life in a wonderful situation. this stuff will be over with eventually and your little boy will be freed from this.