Monday, June 15, 2009

Update of sorts

They did have the staffing. But, they didn't really do anything. Everything is on hold as we wait on the appeal process. The parents are appealing on the grounds they didn't have enough time to do the program, (18 months or so). My understanding is they didn't do anything toward it. This is stuff like rehab if drugs are involved, parenting classes, housing, jobs, anger management classes..... I have no idea what these parent's program looked like.

What upsets me is that the kids don't have a voice, or at least I don't think they do. Our case worker didn't think so either. They didn't have a CASA worker at the staffing today. She said the lawyer that represents the kids in the termination is released when it is done. She wasn't sure how it effected that when the case is appealed. I will be doing some more research on that!

Upside is they really really want to place the kids with us. The were very impressed with our kids. We did this really cool collage of pictures with each child picking the pictures for their page then writing a about them and their feelings on adoption in the middle. She said they thought our kids were awesome. I agreed!

So we WAIT! We continue to walk in faith and prepare and stand in agreement that this will be a very small hiccup in the life of these children.

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