There's Something About November

Jeremy had a home visit with Munchkin's CPS case worker today.  The current plan is to either get relinquishment papers signed and submitted for the court hearing in January, or to terminate parental rights in February if they won't sign the relinquishment papers.  Then the case will be transferred to the adoption side of CPS and we'll have another status hearing four months from either relinquishment or termination, and then we'll process the adoption and consummate.  We're probably looking at close to a year before everything is final, but it feels like now its all just going through the process and we don't have to worry as much about losing him. (sigh)  It'll probably be around November of next year...  We got him November of last year...  November might be come a bit sentimental time for us in a lot of ways.

Another fun happening today...  We're getting a very temporary foster placement tonight.  Another new born straight from the NICU, little bitty guy.  Another family in our agency, who has the two older siblings already, and are planning to take this little man as well, just moved to a new house.  Until they get all of their paper work and license updated, they're operating under a temporary license with their current placements.  The catch is they can't take any new placements under the temporary license.  They should have all that worked out by Wednesday though, and we're going to keep the new baby until then.

It should make for a fun weekend.  We'll see how we fare with a toddler and an infant.  We'll see how Munchkin does as a big brother.  It'll be like a sweet little test run so we'll have a better idea what we're getting ourselves into in March when Jackson arrives.

Here's to a life of adventure.  :)  My heart is full and my God is good.

The Ball is Rolling

Ok, I've left you all hanging for a while...  The meeting that was supposed to happen a few weeks ago got postponed to this past Tuesday (11/4) for reasons I won't go into.  Because of some of the things that transpired in the past month after my last blog entry, we were not sure this meeting was going to go well at all.  Munchkin's case trajectory was definitely moving toward us adopting him, it was now just going to be a question as to whether or not Munchkin's mom was going to relinquish her rights or if they were going to have to go through the process of terminating her rights.

We still hoped that she would do the right thing for him on her own, and if she did, we'd still consider an open adoption.  Low and behold... she verbally made a beautifully self sacrificing and loving decision for her sweet baby and agreed to enter an open adoption with us.  We all cried and she cried and we all told her how proud we were of her.  What could have been a very ugly and heart breaking meeting, turned into something beautiful and full of hope.

Nothing is in writing yet, but the ball is rolling in the right direction.  If all goes well, though we don't have a time line yet, this could mean getting to officially adopt Munchkin much sooner than expected.

In other news...  We're having a Boy!  Jackson Asher Davis.  Munchkin is going to have a little brother.  We've already picked out his nursery decor, and I have some plans for Munchkin's room too.  :)  Now we just need to finish clearing out our spare room, do some painting, and save up to buy some of the things I've registered for.