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Showing Original Post only (View all)I'm a GRANDMA!! My son and his husband have adopted a beautiful baby boy! [View all]
They've been fostering him since he was two weeks old. (Sad story with his drug addicted and often incarcerated mother. She used while she was pregnant, and my NEW GRANSON will likely be a special needs child as a result.) But, so far so good. He's now 10 months old.
It's final!!! It's official!!!
It was touch-and-go... we weren't sure, and I daren't say anything so that I wouldn't "jinx" it. At one point the mother agreed to give him up... but then she went "off her meds" and wanted him back... then started setting conditions. What a mess. (Both her and the process.)
She already has four other children who have been placed in the custody of the grandmother... and her logic was that she could easily take care of "just one". --- But the state disagreed, and so did the grandmother who appeared in court to "testify against" her own daughter so that my boys (my grown son and son-in-law) could give him a chance at a better life.
She (we) have no idea who the father is. She was prostituting herself for drug money and there's just no way to know... so that's one less thing to worry about.
Hey! Did you catch this part: I AM A GRANDMA!!
I knew it would work out. But then I was so afraid that it wouldn't. I can't stop smiling. I'm over the moon!
PS: My boys were "on the list" for just a couple of weeks and they were initially offered the chance to be foster parents for three siblings (1-2 and four) ... that was just too much so they declined (and they feared that they'd be put at the bottom of the list for declining). But less than a week later, they were asked again... and it all worked out.
I'M A GRANDMA!!