In July 2002 we brought home two boys ages 14 months and 3 years they were in the process of having their biological mother’s parental rights revoked by the state of Texas. We are planning on adopting them and at this point we are their legal guardians as they are our foster children. When we filled the paperwork out for adoption we stated that we only wanted to take children who were legally free to adopt or in the process of becoming legally free. Our agency called them a low risk placement.
We give total thanks to people who open their hearts and homes to foster children and have many children pass through their homes throughout their time as a foster parent. Some people are given that special heart that allows them to do this. On the other hand there is us, we both knew that if we opened our hearts and homes to any foster children and had to give them back our hearts would break this is why we said we only would accept low risk placement. This basically means that the state is very confident that the parent rights will be terminated and then the children will be free for adoption.
We were getting ready for our first Christmas as a family. We took the kids to every Santa we could find, we bought an ornament with all our names on it to hang on our tree and we may have gone a little crazy with the presents. This was going to be our first Christmas as parents and we knew that Steve had not really had a great first three Christmas’s so we were determined to make this one awesome.
A week before Christmas we got a call from the boys CPS case worker. When I heard his voice on the phone and when he said we found the biological mother of the boys I started to tear up. I thought he was calling to say that she is going to fight the termination of her rights. He said that she was found in and is back in jail and that he had a question for us. I swear my heart skipped a beat; I was trying not to cry I was sitting at my desk and I was really trying to remain calm.