Turned Down a Respite, Kicking Ourselves

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The day before the May 1st court date, we got a call from DCF to take a little 5 year old from Fri-Mon.  Since I didn't predict the court date was going to go well, and my older son was heading to Disney with my parents for the weekend, I was kind of looking forward to a few days with just one kid (my younger son just turned 1).  I just needed some quiet!  So I was bummed, but my husband and I agreed it just wasn't a good time to take a respite child.

At our quarterly home visit the next week, we found out it was a little girl our social worker was pushing for us to get as an adoption placement (they had another family in mind, but he wanted us to do respite  for her and meet her in case that family fell through). 

But, after hearing why she hadn't been adopted yet (overbearing grandparents scared away the first family), I think it may have been a blessing in disguise that we said no.