Countdown...

So, it's official. Our foster leaves us on Wednesday. It comes with a very heavy heart. We've had good times, we've laughed, cried and everything in between. There is a somber mood in the house, as a good thing comes to an end.

It still angers me that there is seemingly no one with her welfare in mind. In fact, the current guardian is going to court to change guardianship to someone else in the family to send her to Salt Lake City from Southern Utah. They seem hell bent on getting her as far away from her adoptive parents as possible. I would love to know the motivation for such a move, when she is happy here and is doing well in school. I have heard horror stories about the way she acts, but there has never been a hint of that side of her personality show ever here. I've been told by the current guardian that I don't know what she's like, but since I am the stay at home parent, I get so see her most of the time, and she's never reverted to that kind of act ever.

This particular guardian however, from my outsider point of view is a master manipulator. She manipulates her parents (the adopted parents of this foster and paternal great grandparents of the foster) with casual and freighting ease. She had done the same to her brother, but he's has been beaten down by his current wife, so I'll forgive him for that. What this foster needs is an impartial independent child advocate. However, since the guardian currently works for Child Welfare, she already has manipulated this foster to take her in to state foster care.

An interesting side, my wife was told by the guardian and her brother that according to a "very reliable source" that my wife and I were hiring a lawyer to fight for custody of this foster. If I had means, I would talk it over with my wife, or at the least pay for an independent advocate for her. Alas, I have not the means to either, and have not done one thing in a legal scene on the behalf of my family or of the foster.

I don't know what I can do, other than exactly what I am doing, which is watching the events unfold without interference from me or my wife.

The strange part, is Shayna and I knew were called by the Almighty God to provide this service for this lady foster. It's been an experience I think we will all cherish.