My Ebenezer

There is much to tell and little time as I am getting very sleepy and still need to give Princess her last bottle for the night. God answers prayer. That about sums up the last few days but I'll expand so you will also know how your prayers have been answered as you have faithfully prayed for us.

You may remember my concerns about the bio grandparents getting the okay for Speedy to have overnight visits. As a reminder, I am not concerned about Speedy spending this time with his grandparents – I'm very excited about that, actually. But I was concerned about whether or not the bio parents would be allowed to visit during that time and whether or not Princess would be going for overnights as well.

I got to speak with the bio granparents (I need to give them names because they will be around forever and they are truly wonderful people), and I was reassured again about them wanting what is best for Speedy and Princess. What made me feel so much better was knowing that they will not be allowing bio parents to visit, even if CPS says it is okay. I don't want to go through all of the details, but I continue to believe with all my heart that they only want what is best for Speedy and Princess. They want to ease in to overnight visits with Speedy so as not to confuse him and they understand that Princess is too little and I'm not comfortable with her going for overnight visits just yet – even though CPS could give them the opportunity even though we don't want it.

I guess one of my fears was that because they are very eager to spend more time with Speedy and Princess, that what we want might get overlooked. I no longer worry at all about that happening. We were also given permission by CPS to share out contact information with them!!! I'm so happy about this because now I can have Speedy talk on the phone to his Granny and they can even come to our house to visit the kids. It has just opened the door a little wider for us to establish a good relationship with them.

When we first found out about Speedy and Princess we could hardly believe it was true. We just didn't think it could get ANY better…..but now it has. We can offer them a relationship with their biological grandparents and that will be priceless. I already have some photos of Speedy from when he was a baby, still in the hospital even. Not many kids that go through the foster care system can say that.

On top of everything else. a blanket somehow made its way to my house. A blanket that traveled with Speedy to at least his first foster home and I am assuming to his second one also. After his bio granny sent me a photo of him as a baby tonight, I realized that this is the same blanket that his biological great granny made for him when he was born. Priceless. Absolutely Priceless.

Thanks, God.