Look what the stork dropped in our bassinet

This has been a very interesting week. I must go back and explore a few things to explain why. Back in September we were notified by DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) that the biological mother of our two adopted boys had a baby girl. This baby for whatever reason was taken in to the custody of the Court. The DCFS is mandated to first place with relatives, if none available or found, then they try to keep sibling sets together. We were the only family they could get a hold of that had siblings. They told us they were going to need permanent placement for this little girl and wanted to know if we wanted to adopt her. (See it’s a girl and home assessment completed and we passed for more info)

So we get ready to receive this little girl, but by early October we are informed that the Judge had ordered placement or suggested placement with the Uncle and Aunt who expressed interest in adopting her.

A few months go by, and we start grieving the loss of not having this baby placed with us. We start getting rid of the baby stuff, like bassinet, car seat, etc. The very day (Monday) we give back the car seat we get a random obscure phone call from DCFS placement division. I return the call and leave a message to let them know our cell numbers and wonder what is going on. Tuesday the tell us that this little girls file has been through many social workers hands and to make a long story short, the judge ordered the child be placed with us. The problem with that order for the newest social worker was “the family” was only listed as a “family with siblings.” So the social workers needed to go through the mountain of paperwork to find out who this family was.

The social worker finally stumbled across our names and gave us a call to see if we were interested. They had no idea that we had already been through this process two months prior and had given up on getting her. The social worker stated that we will have to do this, that, and the other thing (stuff needed for placement, I will not bore you with all the tedious details.) before we can have her placed with us. We explained that we had already done all those steps (which the social worker was unaware of.) We gave them the names of all the contacts we had with DCFS and all the steps we had taken with each. The social worker took the information and was going to contact and help the social worker currently assigned to the baby.

Wednesday the social worker for the baby called us and said she would be placing the baby with us on Friday! We were excited but still skeptical as we waited for the precious blessing to be delivered. There were and are still some problems in the “records” as we found out on Friday. The social worker was running in to all these “technical” problems with our home, or file whatever. She pulled every string she could and almost was not able to deliver as promised. But as you can see by the topic at 6:15 p.m. the stork dropped off a precious baby girl.

The Thirteen family could not be happier. There are some roadblocks and hurtles to get by in the coming months but the way this whole story played out, I doubt we will have any major issues.

Until the next time,

Thirteen

Update: Added Picture.