So, while we went to Hawaii, we had to put Sir Complains A Lot and her sister Hurricane in what's called respite care. (Basically, it's another foster family who watches the kids while foster parents are away.) When Phoenix dropped them off, Sir Complains A Lot cried that she wanted to go to Hawaii with us, that she didn't want to stay there, blah, blah, blah...We knew it was going to happen because all day long she'd been saying, "My tummy hurts. I think I need to stay with you guys." Yeah, that wasn't going to stop our trip. Apparently, while we were gone, Sir Complains A Lot decided the respite caretaker was better than us and started making false accusations.
On one of the days that we were gone, Sir Complains A Lot went to the stand-in, we'll call her Good Time Sally, and was all, "I don't feel safe with Phoenix." Well, she used our real names, but yeah, said she doesn't feel "safe." Are you fucking kidding me? Good Time Sally (And we're calling her this because she took the kids to Peter Piper's Pizza, swimming, skating, and God only knows what else while we were gone. Also, she had her nephew over and has a foster boy who is the same age as Complains A Lot. So, yeah, I'd like to stay there too so I can do fun things!) questions Complains A Lot, "Why is it unsafe?" Complains A Lot had nothing...She was like, "They don't have a door like you. Anyone can come in." (We don't have a security screen.) Her other reasonings, both to Good Time Sally and later to Phoenix were that we sleep with our door closed, it's a two story house, etc...Seriously? That's what the kid has? It's not safe because we don't have a security door and we sleep with our door closed? Oh please. Apparently, this was enough when Good Time Sally called CPS for CPS to want to "disrupt" the kids. (Disrupt meaning take the kids from us.)
Meanwhile, we were in Maui not knowing that any of this was going on at home. We never got a call or anything. When we got home and Phoenix went to pick the kids up,Sir Complains A Lot cried that she didn't want to leave, that she wanted to stay there. Shocker. Later that night, she broke down again and started telling Phoenix that she felt unsafe with us. *rolls eyes* Phoenix told her that Good Time Sally wasn't licensed for two more kids. They'd made an exception for the one week, but that she wouldn't be able to take both of them. Sir Complains A Lot thought it'd be okay to leave Hurricane with us and she could go live with Good Time Sally. Yeah, it's so unsafe that she's willing to leave her little sister here. What the eff?
On Friday we had a meeting with our licensing worker who handles us, not the kids, and she told us exactly what had been happening. She got an email this week from the kids' CPS worker, again saying that we weren't doing what we needed to do. One of the things she mentioned was that we hadn't set up an appointment for Sir Complains A Lot for counseling, but we had just gotten the letter Tuesday night when we got our mail, after 6:30 pm. They were closed when we got it. She also said we hadn't enrolled Complains A Lot in school. Yeah, we got her enrolled on Thursday and school doesn't start until the 15th, so it's not like we were late. Seriously, the CPS worker was making us out to be these horrible people. Our licensing worker, a woman who doesn't really hold back, called her because she didn't feel her tone would come across in an email and told her what's up. You can't keep moving a kid because they say they feel unsafe and then when probed have nothing to back that up. If that's the case, the kid is going to keep doing it. So, the CPS worker either has her head so far up her ass she doesn't know what's going on around her or she's new...I don't know which and neither does our licensing worker. I'm glad we have her on our side, but I'm not too excited to have a kid in our house who is going to make false accusations whenever she thinks it's going to get her what she wants. And it certainly doesn't help that her mom still thinks we're here to take her kids to all the fun places they want to go. The day after we picked them back up, Sir Complains A Lot was talking to her mom on the phone and her mom was saying that it sucked that the kids couldn't go to Hawaii with us (No it didn't. I'm glad they didn't go. That would've ruined my trip!) and that maybe we could take them to Disneyland. WTF? I'm not going to Disneyland anytime soon and I'm certainly not taking these kids! Why would she put that idea in her head? We took the kids to see Winnie the Pooh on Friday and now Complains A Lot seems to like us a bit more. I'm not here to make the kid like me. We take care of her, which is what we're supposed to do. I'm not spending my money to take these kids all over the place. It's just ridiculous!! And CPS is fucking retarded! They're going to disrupt the kids from a house where we take care of them, but they leave kids in bad situations all the time...It's just ridiculous!
