Well we heard from BM's lawyer and BM wants to give up ALL parental rights of the SS's.....With the stipulation that I will adopt them. Yeah, weird huh? This comming from a woman who would see her own kids in hell before she let me have anything to do with them. hey have lived with us for the past 2 years exclusively and have seen BM for almost 1 year so...We talked to the SS's b/c we have to make a decision in 2 days time. They are so excited. DH and I think that a)she wants me to adopt them so that she does not have to pay child support b/c in our state at least. even though you give up your rights, you still get to pay CS. b)She never has to deal with the SS's again.

As for the SD, we have to give up visitation rights in exchange but hell, we haven't seen her but once or twice since she has been born and we can STILL go to court for her as well.

I have mixed feelings about this, I'm scared to take this journey, scared to raise these boys as my own. I'm elated because maybe I can finally get them the help they need w/o having to fight to BM the whoe way. OMG, I can't believe we are finally doing this.