no trial...

It seems that there probably won't be a trial now. J is up to two nights & 3 days per week at his grandparents. This is being increased to three nights & four days at the beginning of October. He will probably be living with them full time by the new year.

I am all for bio families first. But seriously this kid has been in care for over two years. His family wasn't on the ball to get him back right away. The judge kept giving them more and more chances and giving them extension after extension to file paperwork to get him back. Now two years later, they are probably getting him back. The only way they won't is if something drastically happens to them that they can't look after him (like a health issue) or they change their mind. In my opinion if a judge tells you to get a lawyer and file a specific piece of paper and gives you three months to submit it to the courts, you file it in the next week or two, you don't show up to court in three months no having done it and then saying you still want him so you get an extension of another three months and the same thing again...if you want you kid you should FIGHT with every part of yourself to get him back ASAP!

I have been preparing CO for the possibility of losing his brother.

J, it is so confusing to him. He LOVES going to his grandparents house because they love him and spoil him as Grandparents should. But at the same time he is starting to object to going because he wants to stay home with CO and myself. He is no longer cheering that it is a Nana & Papa day, instead he is double checking with me when he is coming back. There is a lot of 'I come home soon' and 'I be back Sunday'.

Please pray for everyone's hearts.