Some fun and the ongoing headache

We went to the planetarium today. Sean insisted on wearing his Superman costume even though it was hot! It made people smile. He was pretty darn cute.

Sean does not like movie theaters. We thought the 30 minute movie at the planetarium, Space Pirates might keep his attention but he insisted on leaving. He doesn't like the way movie theaters make him feel, the big screen bothers him. He loves to watch movies at home. Oh well, Don and I never go to the movies anyway. The only  reason we go is to take him and he doesn't like it so we will just do something else. He did like the exhibits at the planetarium. Here's Superman visiting the moon. Note, he is wearing snow boots.

Friday I picked up Jenny and the girls and we met up with Jaclyn and her girls at the aquarium. We have no idea who the little boy standing next to Jaclyn is.

Sean and Brie.

Kylie and Sean

We all went to Chick fil a for lunch. It was dress up like a cow and get a free sandwich day. We were unaware of this and did not dress up like cows. It was amazing the number of people including business men who came in dressed up like cows. It got so crazy we had to leave. We then went to Jaclyn's and played until it was time to meet Lanette and return the girls to their safe, happy foster home.

Now the ongoing headache:
I went to the "Team Meeting" for Jenny a couple of weeks ago. It was ridiculous. All the professionals said "Those girls should not go back to their parents" but the bottom line is on August 17th "unless something catastrophic happens" they are going back to Jenny. DCFS was there, the counselor, foster mom, me, drug counselor and domestic violence counselor. The drug counselor said "Jenny's not the sharpest marble." What the heck, marbles are sharp? How sharp is the drug counselor. When Jenny came in the room she started to hyperventilate and went a little crazy and the drug counselor asked her if she had any pills she could take. What the crap? Jenny's whole hyperventilating was manipulation to get out of answering questions. The drug counselor was asking her when the last time she saw Ryan was and Jenny didn't want to answer, she kept saying "awhile".

On July 4th Alika was at a bar in Salt Lake at 1 am and Jenny was there. The first thing Jenny said to her was "don't tell Carol you saw me." All week Jenny kept trying to find out if Alika had told me. I didn't say anything figuring knowledge is power. This Friday Alika went back to the same bar and this time Jenny and Ryan were both there at 1 am, drunk. Jenny is telling Alika how she only drinks because she misses the girls. Ryan is pointing to a new tattoo of Sean's face he has on his arm saying "that's my boy, that's my son." Alika was very upset and went out to the car with her friends and was crying. I asked Alika what the heck kind of bar she was in that she was running into the likes of those two and she says it's a "trendy bar." Hm, doesn't sound to trendy.

Bottom line: Ryan had no job, is still living with his father and has done nothing he was supposed to do to get the girls back. Jenny has done the minimum required to get the girls back, is still drinking and lying and now has a felony conviction. None of it matters the girls will go back to Jenny which means they will go back to Ryan.  Of course it's only a matter of time before they end up back in foster care but how much time and at what cost to the girls? Will it be 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years? Will it be after the girls are teenagers and too old to adopt? Our system is broken!