My mentee

Ok. Well my mentee, we will call her "T" wants to live with me. This is something that I would be open to exploring. Others may not. We are only like 10 years and 9 months different in age. This should not be a problem as my adoptive parents were only the same age differene. Yes I know teens are not easy and especially foster teens. I wish the caseworker would call me as I would like to know some specifics about previous placements and why she was moved. She won't my worker is not really open to the idea at this time. I am licensed for 0-18 and this should not have happend if they did not want me to take in a teen. They are also the ones that had initially suggested this with the hours that I had at work to get an older teen. I would not be open to a call for a teen right now but if I get to spend time with them and get to know them over a period of time then I would. Well she wants to be with me all the time. She wants me to come to games, and then just hang out with her. I hate watching sports. This is a bore to me. I endured watching boys basketball which she helped keep score with for a little over a month. She loves to be involved. I am all for it. I would go to watch her play but that would not be something I would love to endure if she is not playing. She copied her last report card and gave it to me. She has also gone to her attorney to ask him to help her get placed. I don't see what the major issue is as you can adopt a child as long as you are more than 10 years older than them. Well. I don't know but she spend the entire day with me. She went to church with me. She actually enjoyed it. She had fun with the little kids and was wanting to help with the babies. She is totally great with young children.

Last night I went back to church after taking her home and everyone was kept asking where my daughter was or was that your foster daughter. I had to tell them no, as this is the truth and that I would love that to be the case but the workers are worried about age. Many of them said that they would not see that as an issue and I have a huge support group of people at my church. Another foster parent spoke to her in the morning saying that we were friends and that she would not want her to do anything to hurt me and that I would be there for her and would not hinder her from doing things as I am not that type of person. She told her that I would do good for her and help her to succeed in life. She wanted her to be patient and see what God has in store.

I love my church family. They actually are the only ones that stood by me. My adoptive parents flaked out when I started talking to my birth mom and my birth mom flaked out cause I moved out to live my life. I could not continue to live with someone that wanted to die, was sick and wanted me to tell the doctors to let her die if they had her on life support. I gave her the papers to have filled out and registered but advised that I could not and would not tell them to take her off life support. I would not be able to handle it. She never filled them out. Well, I love them both but right now they are not the ones that should be in my life as they want to pull me down. I forgive them for all that I went through because of them and pray that they are right with God. There are just times you have to move on.