Updating my blog...foster care/adoption here we come!

Through the place I used to work I know a lady (CM) who has an 18 month old boy that is curently in foster care and has been since he was 3 months old. CM mild mental retardation and without agency assistance she is unable to parent him to the best of his needs. She realizes this and wants him to have the best life possible and has asked us to become his parent. She has consistantly followed reunification plan and gets monitored visits for 6 hours per time three days per week. She has followed all of the States requests but is still unable to make it to the next level for her to care for him perenantly. The little guy is very attached to her and has healthy attachment to his foster parents as well as his case manager and social worker.

After our long road of infertility when it was started becoming more of a realitty that CM would actually relinquish her parental rights we decided to do what was necesaary on our part to become "Little Guy's" parents. We started PS-MAAP foster parent classes 4/6/09 and finished them 7/6/09. Now we are waiting to do our final home inspection by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. I'm working on baby proofing our home...quite the task. As soon as we are approved as licensed foster parents we will be able to start gradually taking care of him.