Friday, October 19, 2007
A new term date is set...
...but it is not good. The new date is January 28-30, 2008. That means another 3-1/2 months of twice weekly bm visits, and countless crap to deal with. That's all I can say right now - I'm pretty frustrated. I just wanted to let you know if you are following this.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Still No Term Hearing
The term hearing that was supposed to have been the 15th got postponed - the reason we were given was that that AAG was out sick. The social worker, GAL, lawyers & judge are all supposed to meet on the 19th to determine a new date for the hearing, and we've been told it could be as far out as end of October or November. I'm so disappointed - I was so hoping we could be done with everything by now. So, now visits will continue, and in fact, bm has requested unsupervised visits on Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas! I doubt highly it will be allowed - at least, the unsupervised part. She's never been able to have an unsupervised visit, and especially now, she is considered a flight risk if she is alone with Little Man. I don't even want to think of what I would do if she took him and ran. I'm not sure if I would be able to think straight. Anyway, we are praying now that when the parties get together this Friday, that a date sooner rather than later be set for the hearing.
In other news, Little Guy now has speech therapy and physical therapy once a week each. He's behind quite a bit in his speech, and is still experiencing left side weakness in his little body that makes him overcompensate with his right side. I'm so mad sometimes at what bm gave him as a legacy, due to her bad decisions. But we are prayerfully getting through it, and I still don't lose hope that God can make him a completely normal child. I am going to be attending a seminar at the end of the month on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, and I'm excited to learn all I can about what might be in store for Little Guy and how we can help him overcome or cope with it. They say that getting all sorts of therapies and such when they are young can greatly reduce the lifelong effects - let's just keep praying that they are right.
Baby Girl is doing awesome - she's almost ready to start crawling, and the last three nights she has slept pretty much through the night! Hopefully a new trend is starting! I don't know what I'm going to do if I get more than three or four hours of sleep at a time!! What a concept!
One of my good friends is going through Massage School right now, and yesterday afternoon she came over and treated me to an hour long massage while all the kids were napping. It was so nice! I really needed it! And the kids actually all stayed asleep and quiet during the whole time she was doing the massage - a double treat!
Off to get some housework done while the kids are still sleeping this morning. Have a great day!
In other news, Little Guy now has speech therapy and physical therapy once a week each. He's behind quite a bit in his speech, and is still experiencing left side weakness in his little body that makes him overcompensate with his right side. I'm so mad sometimes at what bm gave him as a legacy, due to her bad decisions. But we are prayerfully getting through it, and I still don't lose hope that God can make him a completely normal child. I am going to be attending a seminar at the end of the month on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, and I'm excited to learn all I can about what might be in store for Little Guy and how we can help him overcome or cope with it. They say that getting all sorts of therapies and such when they are young can greatly reduce the lifelong effects - let's just keep praying that they are right.
Baby Girl is doing awesome - she's almost ready to start crawling, and the last three nights she has slept pretty much through the night! Hopefully a new trend is starting! I don't know what I'm going to do if I get more than three or four hours of sleep at a time!! What a concept!
One of my good friends is going through Massage School right now, and yesterday afternoon she came over and treated me to an hour long massage while all the kids were napping. It was so nice! I really needed it! And the kids actually all stayed asleep and quiet during the whole time she was doing the massage - a double treat!
Off to get some housework done while the kids are still sleeping this morning. Have a great day!
Monday, October 15, 2007
Today might be the day!
Well, we find out for sure today if and when the termination hearing will start. We found out last week that a criminal case - a rape trial - might bump our term trial. We were praying that either the rape trial would plead out or that another favorable judge would be assigned our case. There really is only one judge we don't want - he seems to grant continuances for the fun of it - and we really are hoping and praying that he doesn't get the case. I should find out by phone sometime this morning after the social worker meets with the AAG. Please pray that the trial gets scheduled for this week!
Monday, October 01, 2007
Deviled Egg Ducks
These are deviled eggs made to look like ducks. They were made by a Russian Family in a neighboring church. They were celebrating the Harvest, a celebration they have every year. Quite interesting!
My Little Fishermen
This is from the beginning of September, but I thought I would still share it. You can click on the pictures to see them bigger.
Labor Day weekend we went to the lake to spend one last day on the water before shutting down the lake cabin for the winter. We never did go out in the boat, but stayed on shore and the dock and played with the kids. These are pictures of Little Man, playing with a toy fishing rod and watching the ducks come in for bread.
And these are pictures of Little Guy playing around on the dock and shore. All the pics I took of Baby Girl are face shots, so I'll have to see if I can find any from other days that are not of her face.
October will be busy!
October 1st is finally here. This month will be a big one for our family. A lot of things happening with our kids foster cases that will determine their futures.
First, we have a review hearing for Little Guy & Baby Girl on Oct. 2. I'm anticipating that they will set a termination date at this hearing, so that they kids can become legally free and we can start the adoption process for them. So far, the parents have had no contact with the kids since Baby Girl was 2 days old. It's sad to say that - I would fight tooth and nail for them!
Second, we have Little Man's termination hearing on Oct. 15 & 16. It will be a full two-day trial, going over the case from the very beginning until present. I'm sure there will be a lot of testimony that will reveal things I've never known, so I'm definitely going to be sitting in that courtroom for two days. I will be so relieved when this part is done - we've waited a long time for Little Man to become legally free so that we can adopt him. We were told in June 2006, when we brought him home, that we should be able to adopt him by that Christmas. And here it is, more than a year later, and 2-1/2 years since he became a foster child, that we are finally at this point. It's a relief!
Hubby has two hunting trips scheduled for this month, so hopefully he'll get his deer one of those weekends. But that means two weekends in a row I've got the kids all by myself! I'm sure I'll be ready to check into the loony bin afterward! Pray for me!
I'm hosting our MOMS Club bunco night at my house one of the weekends that Hubby is hunting. 16 ladies in my little house - yikes! But it should be lots of fun!
Hubby's birthday is on Halloween, and my mom's birthday is on the 29th, so I'm having a family birthday party here on the 28th. I'm sure that will be interesting! It's always loud and crazy when my family gets together!
My grandma is making the kids their Halloween costumes this year - all characters from the Wizard of Oz. Little Man will be the Tin Man, Little Guy the scarecrow, and Baby Girl will be Dorothy. I think it will be so cute! We'll take the kids to our church's Harvest Party, and we've also got some trick-or-treating scheduled at the mall and with my Mom's Club at a senior center. We are also taking them to the Foster Kids Harvest Party on the 13th.
So, this will be a busy month, and hopefully, a very good month! Please keep our family in your prayers, for the court cases to be successful, and for the Lord's will to be done in those courtrooms. We just want to be able to call these kids our own, legally. They've been ours in our hearts for quite a while, but it will be nice to put some permanency behind those feelings.
First, we have a review hearing for Little Guy & Baby Girl on Oct. 2. I'm anticipating that they will set a termination date at this hearing, so that they kids can become legally free and we can start the adoption process for them. So far, the parents have had no contact with the kids since Baby Girl was 2 days old. It's sad to say that - I would fight tooth and nail for them!
Second, we have Little Man's termination hearing on Oct. 15 & 16. It will be a full two-day trial, going over the case from the very beginning until present. I'm sure there will be a lot of testimony that will reveal things I've never known, so I'm definitely going to be sitting in that courtroom for two days. I will be so relieved when this part is done - we've waited a long time for Little Man to become legally free so that we can adopt him. We were told in June 2006, when we brought him home, that we should be able to adopt him by that Christmas. And here it is, more than a year later, and 2-1/2 years since he became a foster child, that we are finally at this point. It's a relief!
Hubby has two hunting trips scheduled for this month, so hopefully he'll get his deer one of those weekends. But that means two weekends in a row I've got the kids all by myself! I'm sure I'll be ready to check into the loony bin afterward! Pray for me!
I'm hosting our MOMS Club bunco night at my house one of the weekends that Hubby is hunting. 16 ladies in my little house - yikes! But it should be lots of fun!
Hubby's birthday is on Halloween, and my mom's birthday is on the 29th, so I'm having a family birthday party here on the 28th. I'm sure that will be interesting! It's always loud and crazy when my family gets together!
My grandma is making the kids their Halloween costumes this year - all characters from the Wizard of Oz. Little Man will be the Tin Man, Little Guy the scarecrow, and Baby Girl will be Dorothy. I think it will be so cute! We'll take the kids to our church's Harvest Party, and we've also got some trick-or-treating scheduled at the mall and with my Mom's Club at a senior center. We are also taking them to the Foster Kids Harvest Party on the 13th.
So, this will be a busy month, and hopefully, a very good month! Please keep our family in your prayers, for the court cases to be successful, and for the Lord's will to be done in those courtrooms. We just want to be able to call these kids our own, legally. They've been ours in our hearts for quite a while, but it will be nice to put some permanency behind those feelings.
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