a woman on the edge

Well, I haven’t posted on my blog for some time now….actually I think it will be close to one month.

The last month has been a whirlwind of emotions; despair, frustration, fear, love, confusion and many, many, many tears.

Although i cannot share specific details here due to legal reasons, let us just say that it involves the health and well-being of my husbands two children and our immediate need to provide them with a safe environment to live in.

They have been living with us for the past month, happy but full of uncertainty about the future. The past nearly two weeks have involved two and a half hour trips each way to attend Court hearings to determine what will happen for the children at least for the interim period.

We now know the children are returning to their Mother’s care for the interim period. This is not the outcome we wanted, but it is what is going to happen. They were supposed to return yesterday after school but their Mother did not organise to meet us as determined by the Court and hence they ended up staying with us again last night.

So another night of anguish and “limbo” for the children and now today is the day they are to return and we are still waiting to here from Mum to organise a time.

I am on here to let my friends know what is going on and why i have been so “absent” of late. I hope to find a way back to some sort of “normal” again soon…although this is all going to take quite some time as there are still more Court dates and a final hearing in September.

Thankyou to all my friends for their kind wishes and messages of support and understanding, you just don’t know how much your thoughts mean to me at a time like this.

“sometimes i am greatful not to know what is around the corner in life”

Filed under: Ramblings from the Edge on April 4th, 2009