I left my cell phone off overnight. (We have a land-line, so true emergency calls from extended family would call that number. Everyone who lives here was home.)
I woke up and turned the phone on this morning as I was getting Edmund's lunch ready for school. Mr D and M were still asleep.
I had a text. From M's half-sister's adoptive mother. M's biomother is pregnant.
When we told the agency caseworker we were closing our home, we said the only scenario where we could see taking another placement within the next 4 years was . . . if M's biomother had another baby and the child was removed.
Our foster license expires the end of this month. Our CPR trainings have lapsed. We didn't complete the required number of training hours over the past year. We have not done the annual re-eval process involving an agency caseworker coming out to inspect the home. We were letting it all go. Actually, I think it expires the end of this month. It may have expired today.
I don't know what we're going to do. I don't know when the baby is due. I don't know if CPS plans to remove the child at birth (probably?). I don't know if we can get hurriedly recertified in the next 6 days just in case this baby (M's sibling!) needs us. If we can't, I don't know what we'd have to do to get licensed again -- other than retake the initial 21 hours of training.
Right now, all I can do is breathe. Pray. Talk to Mr D. And wait for a reasonable hour to call our agency caseworker....
It's a roller coaster!!!
ReplyDeleteWould your state consider you a kinship placement where you wouldn't have to have your full license in order to take the baby - should the State remove the baby?
Which...they don't always do...as evidenced by the Bio Mom in our current case caring for her newborn while I nurse her malnourished child back to health.
The caseworker did mention the possibility of a "waiver" if we weren't done with licensing when the baby is born. (M was 2 months early, so even if she's only 5 months along....)
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