Next week is IT!

Well, we had our meeting last night with all the "key players" at CAS including the Birthmom. The entourage that woman had was incredible. I don't even think Brad and Angelina travel with that many people (their kids included). She had 3 people there (that were working on her behalf) she should have had four people but her lawyer didn't show up at the last minute. So we started off by meeting all the players including the one player that has been blocking this adoption from day 1, that being the "child protection worker". We sat there and answered all the same questions as before...like, how will we teach Sadie about adoption, what will we tell her about her birth mother, how many visits a year do we agree too (only 3 by the way), it was complete deja vu from the October meeting. Then as the meeting was nearing the end the Child protection Worker told birthmom that she would like to see Sadie moved into our home within the coming weeks. Birthmommy was not happy to hear that (for whatever
reason) but she was told that she really does not have a say in this anymore, that "they wish to include her in the process but she is not making any of the decisions!" THANK YOU!!! The meeting was over and birthmom's nose was completely out of joint - but we felt good about the way things went. Whether or not CAS follows up on their promise to move Sadie in with us does however remain to be seen, but we remain cautiously hopeful. We are however having some reservations about how truthful CAS is being about Sadie's health issues. They are being less then forthcoming with her medical records and we found out last night that coupled with the mental health issues we could also be facing Arnold Chiari Malformation syndrome. Her biological sister has been diagnosed with this and they suspect that Sadie could have it as well, as she is exhibiting many of the same symptoms as her sister. So, just to make things that much more complicated for us, we are now facing a somewhat serious neurological disorder coupled with threats of mental health issues. We are reading up and doing our research but the bottom line is we will not know anything until we can get her to a neurologist. We do wish that CAS had done more medical testing on Sadie, so we could have the full picture - instead of just assumptions and guess work... but they thought the tests to be "too invasive on a little baby - so it was best to wait"

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

All we can do is take this one day at a time. It's like we are the stars of our own TV Drama, except there is no one to write our happy ending for us. Wish I could tell you how this story ends...

We should know more by next Tuesday, with visits starting on Thursday.