My Family Moments: Hurry

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Hurry

I have to hurry cuz she is squirming and I remembered I should do this. Baby Girl is doing awesome. Her poop isn't green anymore but we had to use the booger getter today. Ya, she wasn't happy! I realized the "I told you" 's started really early. After I completed the booger-getting, and she was breathing through her nose without any bubbles or mucus in the way, I promptly stated, "See! I told you it would help!" Just making sure she knew I was right.

So, the Detention Hearing happened this week. Looking forward to finding our exactly what that means for Baby Girl and us. I believe it's where they officially start the process of the parents and services or no services. Gotta look that up. Either way, it's still looking like we will have our little Angel Baby for a few months. I can't believe it has only been 1 week. We are far beyond attached to this sweetie. We are at the point of only Daddy and Mommy being able to calm her down. Feels so good. She is getting cuter and cuter everyday. Her forever family is going to fall in love with her as fast as we did. The question came up about 3 times this past week from friends, my S.W. and family. Will you guys be adopting her? And I swear I don't even have a tiny feeling of wanting too. It's not that I don't love her as if she was and could be my own. Because since the day I brought her home, she has been my daughter. It's more of, I don't know how to explain it. We are loving her and taking care of her till her God chooses her Forever Family. God has chosen us to be her family for now. There are so many people out there who really want to raise a child. They are going to love her and help her grow into the woman she is meant to be. When that happens, we will be super-bummed. We talked about it last night. Boy we will need the prayers then. The piece that keeps are heads up is when we think of the fact that we will be able to love another baby or little one again and again and again! This is what God has called on us for and we are so up for the challenge.

Speaking of Abby and Ethan, they are doing awesome. No jealousy, no resentment of extra chores.... just straight love and understanding for their baby sister! They are so good with her. Week one of summer vacation has ended and we hope to fill in some days with the Zoo and the Nature Center next week. Maybe some pool?!

See ya! She is getting louder... :)Amy

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"Foster Family" Terminology

SW: Social Worker = This is a professionally trained (at times I feel from a YouTube video) individual who works for any County or private organization. My foster baby will have a SW and I will have a SW who is also known as a CCW. (see below)

CCW: Clinical Case Worker = This is a professionally trained individual, also known as a Social Worker who works for Angel’s Foster Family Network. They are assigned to a maximum of 12 families at one time and lead them through the fostering system. They are our right hand gal. (no males as of yet) This person does all the legal pushing and pulling on our behalf so we can focus solely on loving and caring for our foster babies. I would not and will not ever do my job as a foster mom without these people.

Supervised Visit = The bioparent has rights to see their child no matter the circumstances. Most often the visits begin as 1 to 2 hours, 1 to 2 times a week. An adult that is approved must watch the parent with the child at all times. (sometimes a lot of work and sometimes boring as heck)

Unsupervised Visit = The bioparent has rights to see their child no matter the circumstances before. If they are improving their situation then they will eventually get the right to have visits without supervision. The foster parent must drop off the child at an approved location and pick them up later. Most often the visit is for 2-6 hours 1 to 2 times a week. And these will only increase in length as the situation improves. (super hard for the foster parent to move to this step)

Foster Baby/Child = A child that has been removed from their biological family due to many different reasons affecting the welfare of the child. They are then placed in protective custody under the County and State.