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!

May 7, 2015

Horrible blogger...

I've been the worst blogger.  I have no excuse and I hope it doesn't come and bite me in the end.  I've used this blog to record the details of Little Mighty's case.  The visits have been unsupervised for a while now.  They recently were extended and now the agency worker told me the county is extending them again. The bios have sent him back to me hungry (saying he ate) they've sent him back with a dirty diaper and wet.  They've complained about almost everything I've put on him.  I'm tired.  I know he's going home and I've been waiting for the workers to tell me he's going for overnights.  The bios have tried to end a visit over an hour early because they said he was sick.  They wanted me to drop what I was doing and take him to the dr. they don't want him at their house when he's sick.  I've tried to explain that there's nothing I can do for him that they can't.  He is too young to know the difference...thank God.  He is extremely delayed. He turns 18 months old this month and still doesn't have one word and has yet to try to take his first step.  His core muscles are very loose.  He is just a floppy boy.  His therapist sees him 2x a week and is requesting that at the next evaluation meeting that we add speech.  I have to be honest.  I am afraid for him if/when he goes home.  The bios present well so I know its just a matter of time.  I am beyond frustrated with the system and I'm tired of the laws that protect the rights of the parent.  My older kids have asked if we can take the summer off of fostering if he leaves.  Court is next month (June). Unless we get called for a newborn... Lol.