A is back home

Wednesday Can't even describe the day. Blogging from the iPhone seems to inhibit my thoughts from freely flowing. Todd & I boarded the plane for Vegas at 9:40. I love sales meetings. Got off the plane around 1 Las Vegas time. I saw that I had a missed call from our agency case manager. Called her & she didn't answer. We are sitting waiting to get our luggage when she calls back. My mom's certification for CPR is not valid. They will no longer accept the training from online. Even though she was the one that gave us the link to the online training. She is very sorry about the error. She says that A will need to go into respite care. A stranger's home until I get home. I am speechless and sickened. After a trip to the bathroom to compose my mascara I call her again and say that A needs to go home not into respite and that she needs to call cps. She is agreeable to that.

Guess I should back up a bit and say that the grandparents drug test came back negative on Tuesday. I got a call on Tuesday saying that A would be going home. Since I wanted to take her, the placement would be on Sunday. I will get back into town on Saturday. This wasn't the ideal time since I would be our of town until then but I knew I had time to plan and somehow get it all done.

Then comes today. After trying to organize between Gram, agency case manager, cps case manager, myself, CPS supervisor, and the attorney, A is now home. I called my mom & told her where the new suitcase was and to just pack her clothes on the second shelf. She also needed to pack both her special pillows she sleeps with. I think it was around 4:15 Texas time that A left for home. I know the time because Madeline said when she got home from school the case manager was there and A told her that she was going home. Madeline said that it was the happiest she had ever seen A so Mad said she wasn't going to cry and upset A. I'd called A's grandma/mommy and she was beside herself with excitement. She was also confused as to how such good luck was heading her way. I explained the days crazy circumstances and how I never would have town if A was to be put in respite care. My case manager is young. She made a mistake. She is super sorry and totally accepted responsibility for it. It is good that I am older and wise and could think clearly enough to insist A get to go home or any other solution but not staying in a stranger's house for respite care. I am thankful to CPS for pulling it off, getting the attorney's signature and making things happen in a short amount of time. I know they are overworked. A's mommy asked that when I bring her the rest of A's things if I could come and go to church with them. She says everyone knows of "Nina" and she wants me to meet their church family. A request that is hard to turn down. I will see A on Sunday. I have a feeling that it will not be the last time we see her. Almost 5 months with us and she will always be ingrained in my heart. Many good times and many rough times. I'll have more time to ponder that.

The case manager called & left a message of the jubilant reunion and the new pink car seat. A is back at home.