Peanut leaves today to go live with her grandparents permanently. We are so glad that she will not have to be shuffled back and forth anymore and now she will be able to get the services she needs. Having her here has been a crazy experience that has taught me a lot. It's easy to love a child but love just isn't enough. We pray that she will do well with her grandparents and also that her parents will do everything they can to be reunited with her soon. We hope that her time here was positive and that she felt loved. With peanuts departure we also come to a close as a foster family. I met with our licensing worker yesterday and officially closed our home. This means we will no longer be expecting placements. This was a bitter sweet decision for both Jeremy and I. Although we know we have made the right decision there is still a sense of sadness that we won't be adding to our family again any time soon. Our hope is to go back into fostering once our kids are grown. We do still feel like we have a lot to offer the children in this world who have suffered abuse and neglect but right now we have to concentrate on the children God has already blessed us with. We were just talking yesterday about how great it's going to be once Baby boy is potty trained, life with no more diapers. Our growing family will always be growing, but now not in number just in years.
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