not a respite

8y.o. full time

!!!!!!!

holy shit congrats dude, that's hella rad

ntaloons: thanks! it's been exciting with quite the learning curve

like the school bus schedule they gave us is not to be trusted and everything should be 15 minutes earlier

weirds me out a little how much people are like "you're doing such good work!"

got home and was told there's potentially already a big changes to thia situation

What's the background? Is this a family member?

As a foster-to-adopt sibling, let me know if you have any hyper specific questions or anything!

rahmk: from what I understand parental neglect because of drug abuse, there's a now young teenage older sister who was taking care of him as like a 10y.o

was with an aunt before being placed with us, but was removed because of refusal to comply with court required drug testing (btw if social worker ever asks I'm technically not privy to this information yet)

the jumping ahead is the State moving to make the priority goal being permanent long term foster placement/adoption over return to parent (whereas most steps through the courts before this is reversed)

as Andy said, thought we'd get a couple children that we tearfully return to their parents before we end up with one we're potentially being asked if we wanna adopt

instead of the first one

!!! good luck!