Slight change of plans..

Joel spoke with our S.W. in Ontario today about our trip! Apparently now, Joel must be present for the court date on Sept 20th along with sister and brother in law. So now, Joel needs to be in Thunder Bay earlier than we planned so he can do visits with baby C! The plan is now for Joel, Pax and Isaiah to fly in on the Friday.. I will then fly in either on the Tuesday night or Wednesday morning flight. Joel and the kids then have to drive 4 1/2 hours to the town where mother in law lives and where baby C is currently in respite care. They will all then drive back to Thunder Bay on Tuesday morning as we will find out the court time at the last minute.
After court is said and done, Joel will set up in the hotel with the kids and then I should be there shortly after or the next day! We will stay in the hotel until coming home! Oh, and S.W. is paying for the hotel room, major bonus as we have to rent a vehicle while we are there!
Now, as excited as I am for all this to be happening, Joel is taking my babies away from me for almost an entire 5-6 days! I am soo sad about this! The last time I was away from Pax this long was when she was 2 and I moved out here first.. Isaiah, I have only left my precious baby for one night and I almost died, I missed him soo much! It doesn't help that I am his favourite person right now.. I KNOW I will be busy with work, sleep and getting the last minute things done around the house, and I KNOW this will be easier with no kids trying to "help out".. But, I KNOW this is all for the better! I told Joel he's leaving the house with 2 kids and coming home with 3, how amazing is that!

More great news!

Getting through the long week end was very stressful, 3 entire days with no "real" news! S.W. in Ontario called this morning to explain things a little better.. So here is the scoop!
Court date is at the end of Sept; at this court date sister in law and brother in law will sign their rights for baby C away (with this being said, they can apply at anytime to get them back, but they must prove to a judge that they are better and have been stable for a few years d/t their history) Soo, the BIG news is that if sister and bro in law keep agreeing there will be NO SECOND COURT DATE!!!
S.W. stated Joel would fly out a few days before the court date to do visits, then after Sept 20th, we can come home, as a family of 5!!!! He said he would call us in the next few days with more specifics! Joel spoke with sister in law yesterday and she sounds clean and still very supportive of baby C coming here!!
Again, I will say it, the love, support and prayers from everyone has been this possible and words cannot thank each and everyone of you for it! I am a believer in God and Karma and both will bless each and everyone of you!!

Court date!!!

So, today we got good and bad news, via email since our S.W. KNOWS we would be angry with his news and decided not to call with this critical information. Apparently, he spoke with the Lawyer (this is the one we were told only worked Fridays, thanks for lying there guys!) and the earliest court date they can get is the end of Sept!. Immediately after getting the email, Joel tried phoning and no answer! EERRR!! So, I am beyond thrilled we got a court date and very angry on when it is!

The end is near!

Joel called our S.W. this morning, surprisingly he has already filled out the Protection Application and had submitted it to the Lawyers on Friday. From here, the Lawyer looks over the application (usually within a day) and it gets sent to court and a court date is assigned within 5day, MAX!! Now, we wait for the call on when to board the plane!!!!

Best news EVER!!!!!

Joel finally got a hold of SW in Ontario's boss bright and early this morning ( it helps with the time change and them being 2 hours ahead and Mr Isaiah waking up nice and early!) Anyways, she spoke with the lawyers on Thursday, SW in Ontario is filling out or has filled out the Protection Application.. What this means is they are requesting a judge to step in and give us rights to Cheyanna if she were to need medical care, etc. This court date will be.... late this week or early next week!!!!! After that date they will assign another court date within days of the first date and Joel has to be present for it! In the meantime, once the first court date is complete, they will be flying Joel out to Ontairo!!!!!!!!! Yup, in the next few weeks we will be a family of 5!! We are sooo happy that this is coming to an end, this was a hard, hard fight, but sooo worth it!!

So, the plan as of now; Joel flies out with Pax and Isaiah and I stay here and work, work, work and get ready! Then, I fly out to Ontario for hopefully a few days to visit and then come back, just in time for a family photo shoot by a great photographer here in Calgary!! Happy day!!! We could NOT have done this without everyone's outpouring support, love, hope and lots and lots of prayers! Thank you and please keep all that amazing energy coming for the adjustment of a little girl into our wonderful ( and crazy) household!!

News on a Saturday!

So, today started out like every Saturday, not expecting any news.. Then my mother in law calls and stated she had just talked to sister in law and had her number. Joel then called sister in law and she stated that her and baby C's dad were very supportive of baby C coming here and that they had been trying to get a hold of SW in Ontario to sign the papers, he hasn't called them back! I then emails foster family to let them know and thery said they were in a similar situation and since sister in law is agreeing foster family said that they saw no reason why baby C cannot be in our care by Aug 31st.. If only we were the ones to make the big decisions like that. Foster family and Joel and sister in law will all be calling SW in Ontario on Monday and getting down to the bottom of things.. Hopefully, with lots of prayers this will happen soon!!!

As for Friday, no one called us back.. We called a million times and not one call back.. I'm almost ready to post their numbers on the internet so everyone can call them and tell them to freaking call us back already!!!

More run arounds..

Nothing new really to report other than constant run arounds today.. I emailed the foster family this morning telling them we recieved the police checks, they stated they had a meeting with their social worker yesterday and that my sister is now NOT in favour of baby C to come live with us. Joel then called our SW and they had a meeting last week and they are looking at custody ( instead of kinship) and they want to put her on an extended family visit prior to custody BUT would be in October sometime, but stated he had to talk to his supervisor. He also said they filed a Protection Application and are submitting it to the court, from there a judge will decided what to do, give baby C back to sister in law, have her with us permanently, or continue with kinship through the agency. SW also stated he has not recieved anything from our SW here in Alberta, which I think is B.S. because she is on top of everything, even calling us in Newfoundland, just to touch base, stating she sent the paperwork.. SW here in on vacation until next week sometime! Off the phone then with loser SW, as you can read, we hate him and everything about him, once we have baby C here, we will be investigating how to make a "formal complaint"
Anyways, Joel called the supervisor and they played phone tag all day, she left a message as Joel was on the phone with another social worker in the same office. The supervisor left a message saying she would be speaking with the lawyer and that she got the police checks and would touch base with us Friday because she was busy that day (hopefully regarding us!) In the meantime, we sit and pray so hard for her, sending her all the love that she deserves. I bought her cute little summer outfits that she won't be wearing anytime soon..

Blah, and readying through this I am going to have to figure out initials for people to make it a little easier to understand who is who. As you can see, this is not a simple process by any means, with all these people involved it is like the game telephone!