After our last court date, the judge agreed to see the parents in just a matter of weeks to take a look at their progress since they were doing "so good" on their case plan.
On the Saturday before court, Snow White had her first unsupervised visit with the Bios. Her caseworker is doing his best to make sure that the unsupervised visits take place in public where there are always "eyes on the family", so it took some time for her to actually get to see her parents unsupervised.
She comes home happy and full of unhealthy food, and for once we thought "wow, an uneventful visit."
Then her transport worker called to say that the parents notice a scratch on her leg and they are accusing hubby of hurting her and are going to make a huge deal at court.
The "scratch": it happened while he was playing and "tickling" her. It was barely noticeable and such a none event that we didn't even document it. So we immediately took a picture, sent it to the caseworker and the GAL. Sunday we waited. Bellies clenched in apprehension, just knowing that they were going to bring it up in court and we were going to have to answer for "malicious" tickling.
Monday came and court lasted all of 10 minutes. Nothing of note happened. We spent more time talking with the caseworker than we did in court. All that worry for nothing.
This does not mean that we shouldn't have taken the measures that we did. They warned us in class: you will be accused of doing SOMETHING. That is why is it so important to document everything.
What I am saying is this......
Foster care seems to be a lot of important sounding meeting and court dates, but no change.
Nothing changes... until it does.
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