Kim - I'm only now reading the latest updates, a wind storm last night kept me from getting online. I was so utterly appalled that Jenna was left alone, it makes my blood run cold. Even when I was in my early teens and baby-sitting my brothers, nothing at all would have made me consider leaving them alone for even "five minutes". Those drugs have her in a tight grip and she's totally incapable of rational thought at this time, only the kind of thinking that will get her what she wants.
It all makes you wonder how much she said against Chad was true and how much to get sympathy and more support from you. Are the friends of his in her apartment building also friends enough with her to be supplying her with drugs? Is this all a power play between her and Chad with Jenna in the middle? For ten years, I watched my next-door-neighbor try to deal with her drug addict son and the chaos it caused to an entire family. She enabled him and it made the situation much worse. He lied to her repeatedly and she kept believing him because she didn't want to not believe him. She almost lost her hard-working daughter because she allowed her son to pretty much rule her life. The entire neighborhood was relieved when he moved out this year after she got a new boyfriend with a very clear head.
I send my strongest hopes that you will be allowed to foster Jenna. All through the posts, I kept seeing an image of her with a cheeky grin in my mind and hoping desperately that the damage to her will be minimal. I don't want to imagine the impact all this would have had on her if she didn't have you and your husband to provide her with a safe haven.
You are going to have quite a chaotic Christmas with a two-year-old tearing open presents, both her own and everyone else's!
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