I knew when we started this journey into Foster Parenting that it would be a wild ride. I have seen "the state" at work as I have watched my mom deal with things for the passed 28 years of her foster care experience. I knew there would be frustrations. Knowing things and processing them are two different emotions. I called my licensing worker on Tuesday and left a message. I called her supervisor and left a message. I'm still trying to figure out where things are with our license. I never heard back from either of them. Yesterday at 10:40am I had a 13 minute conversation with my licensing worker and a case worker. I saw her name come up on my caller ID and assumed she was returning my call from Tuesday. I answer and she says "Hi Kari, it's _____, I wanted to talk to you about a referral." My mind moves very fast. I can have about 100 thoughts in 2 seconds. My first thought is that I just cannot believe these people. They can't return a call to let me know the status of my license, but they are calling me with a referral. Unbelievable. So I start asking the standard questions, how old is he? How long has he been in care? How many homes has he been in? Does he have any medical issues? And she puts his caseworker on the line. The caseworker was very nice and answered all of my many questions. She said that his current foster mom had given a written notice today. She gave me all of the info and said she would be in touch. That was almost 24 hours ago and I have heard nothing. I am not good at being patient. I am a planner and I want to know what the next step is. I'm trying not to call them, trying to wait for them to call me, but I'm losing restraint. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, as this is the fourth referral we have had, just the second "official" referral. None of the others has come through so I'm trying not to get too excited.
To be continued when I know more...
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