Great News!
SW called this morning - to reschedule our home visit for the month and shift it to Thursday morning...AND to let me know that the Warning Lawyer has now been appointed! YES LORD!!For those of you new to the situation, Biomom is AWOL. She left a drug treatment facility in June, and has not been seen since. This violates her probabtion BIG TIME. Biomom is a wanted woman. Whenever she is found - and she WILL be found (its just a matter of when) - she will be doing some time courtesy of the fine folks of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Since Biomom left before they could serve her with papers for TPR (Termination of Parental Rights), they have to follow due process and ask the court to appoint a Warning Lawyer to document the process that the porobation officer and the social workers have gone through to try to locate Biomom. (They are fairly convinced she has no gone into "hiding" and has pretty much just gone away.)
The Warning Lawyer was appointed on August 2nd (we didn't even know it had happened already) and will have either 60 or 90 days (SW wasn't positive, but thinks it is 60 days) to wait to then file paperwork with the court to say that they all tried hard to find Biomom to no avail. Then (THEN!) we will get a date for TPR. SW thinks we will be told the date sometime in October and get a TPR hearing date sometime in November.
Perhaps by her first birthday, Cookie will be free and clear and we will be able to transition to working with an adoption lawyer. That would be like another Christmas miracle.
I tell ya, this is the best news we could have gotten. Things are progressing like they should. SW even apologized for everything taking so long, but assured me that this case has moved about as fast as she's ever seen. I told her thanks, and that we did understand that this is all moving quickly compared to other situations out there. We really appreciate Cookie's worker - like I have written before, she's a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is kind of woman - and she's a mom, and she "gets it". If I could have her as the kid's workers for all of my foster kids, I'd never hesitate to take more. She's amazing - and she digs our Cookie. We give her lots of pictures - she even told me over the phone that she needed some more because her boss stole one for her bulletin board because she thought it was so beautiful (what a lovely compliment!).
Thank you for your continued prayers. Life is good. God is good - all the time. We have been so blessed.
On a side note - I think you should know that the other Sunday Michael began writing out a check in church before the offering was taken up - and I was a bit confused because he always writes out our tithe check on the first Sunday of the month after we both get paid - and this was out of the routine. He leaned over at me and whispered that "he had forgotten to tithe on the money we get from the state for Cookie". I wasn't shocked, but I was surprised. He asked if that was okay, and I said "sure". I'm not even sure the amount would be that "significant", but it was the act of obedience that struck me. Michael is a man who actively seeks God's will - to the fullest. Tithing is something that he "just does" as a matter of course - and then he gives above and beyond whenever there is a special need of some kind. So, I imagine the check was for about $60 - no biggie, right?
Well, guess what - the Lord promises to give back to us abundantly, and that's exactly what happened. We couldn't put a pricetag on getting a Warning Lawyer appointed so quickly. But I can tell you, it's worth a lot more than our measly money.
That's my testimony today. Give God what's his - and in case you need reminding - that's EVERYTHING you've got.
On Christmas morning, 2005, we took our 5-day old baby girl to church and gave her back to the Lord. Since then, he has healed her and strengthed her and caused great things to happen in her life and in ours. We'd ask for more, but we can't imagine what that would be!
posted by No Longer In Crisis @ 8/22/2006 04:40:00 PM
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