So,
Now we just spent the past 2 1/2 hours talking with the children's adoption homestudy social worker, which, of course, is on top of the children's social worker that has free reign of our house, as does our social worker, and the attorney. 2 1/2 hours of trying to cook dinner, clean up pee accidents (because he always has them after a parent visit), chase a manic 4 year old, clean up dinner, put pajamas on 3 young children, and talk to this woman. We had to tell this woman about the history of all three children... this is all information which the other social workers already know. The children's social worker brought out the children so she could do her monthly visit at the same time as the other lady, but, ended up leaving shortly after dropping them off. This most likely means that in the next two weeks we'll have to do the whole thing over again for her.
She did, however, stay long enough to tell us that the birth dad is back in the picture. This means that he will get one visit a month after he talks with the social workers and supervisors. This means that the visits just went up to 3 a month... instead of 2 a month. He gets his own because they are now seperated. The social worker also wants to do back to back visits. This would mean once a month the visit would most likely be from 2-4. This means that Alli and Jackson would be picked up around 12:30. They would have no nap except for whatever happened in the car ride. MAXIMUM of 30 minutes. total. then they sit cooped up in DCF offices for 2 hours, and we get to deal with the aftermath yet again. Nikki would get picked up 12:15/12:30 as well... and would miss a lot of school. We will see how the next few weeks pan-out. However, we are going to be very strong on the fact that these babies need their naptime... it's not fair to make them suffer. It's just hard because we were finally making progress, and now it's not really any better then before (if not a little worse).
If you think of it, we would love some prayers. Thank you!!
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