Happy Thanksgiving to us.
We had our beautiful son home for a full month when we recieved a phone call from the agency yesterday morning that his birth parents had decided to parent. The case worker came to our house an hour later and picked Eamon up from our home. He was returned to his parents back at the agency.
The courts had been backed up in our home town (the 2 judges who do the TRP's in our county both went off on a seminar at the same time and left no replacement. The judge we got had a new clerk who refused to put the TPR's to the top of the list.) So TPT had been moved up all the way to the first week of December, thus offering no closure to our birth parents.
But we were certain all would be well. We had a wonderful open relationship with them, which included lots of emailing. I dropped off photo albums, a locket for mom and books for her son, at the agency. I got an email from her that they loved the gifts and were so happy that they'd chosen the perfect family to raise their son. Everything was perfect.
Then out of nowhere...they wanted him back.
Our hearts are broken, or rather they feel like they were cut out with a dull knife. Our daughter keeps asking where 'baby?' is.
Yes, I realize he was never fully ours until TPR was signed, so please don't bring that up. All I need now is a little support and understanding from everyone around me. And I know that there are others on this forum who have experienced what we're going through now.
Our house is so empty..thank god for our beautiful daughter. We still have much to be thankful for.
Simone