[JeffInGA]

Hello - I am 41 and married have been married to my wife for 7 years, she is 38. We have two boys. One is 5 and the other just turned 7 this week. We have a happy and healthy family.

Over the summer my father in law stopped by one day with a friend of his and his friend's grandson. His grandson was only a few weeks older than our 4 year old and a very sweet child. We came to learn that the grandfather was taking care of the child because his daughter has some serious issues with the law and drugs.

Tonight we got a call from this man and he basically asked us if we would be willing to take the child in as he has medical problems and the court was going to take the child and put him into foster care. Someone from the court asked him if he knew of anyone who would be willing to take the child and if he did to give them the phone number of this person tomorrow at court. I believe he tried other avenues - remaining family and such - and then turned to us. We of course said that he could give our number to the court official and have them contact us.

We are somewhat in shock tonight about this and really have no idea what to expect as far as the outcome of this - so I am coming here asking for opinions, tips, experiences -- anything to help us understand what the procedure for this will be like and how we can better prepare ourselves for the days ahead.

Please feel free to ask any questions - or questions I should ask.

One last note - the grandfather - who is not someone we really know did mention that the birth mother would not know who we were or where we lived as he feared she would attempt to take him.

Help?