Grand kids wanting to call u mommy

Kerri - posted on 09/06/2010

Thanks Linda,
Sounds like u and Kira are doing well. Its been a few months since I orginally posted, since then we just celebrated my grandsons 2nd bday, looking forward to celebrating Madisons 4th bday in November and things are still the status quo with my daughter... The thing that has changed is that I am not so anxious to know how long or if I will have this children til they are grown. I have tried to just take one day at a time and enjoy; and not to worry so much. My daughter still seems to call just oftern enough to stir the pot with me. But I am better at saying no and still working on not letting work me up and am actually getting better at it. Wishing u and Kira all the best!!
Kerri

Linda - posted on 09/03/2010

Hi Kerri:

My little Kira was born as a special needs baby because our daughter was involved with drugs. She and the baby lived in our home at the time of her birth. I was Nana. My husband was Pop-pop and her mother was Mommie. During the first couple of years Kira would hear her mother call me Mom so she started calling me Nana-Mommie, so that stuck for a while. However, by the time Kira was four our daughter was extradicted out of state and sent back to Florida to face a 15 year prison sentence. At that point we had no option but to take over our daughters parental rights, since we were the only home that Kira knew. We adopted her and added her to my husband's social security, which she will continue to get until she is 21 as long as she remains in school. I became Kira's legal mother, my husband her legal father. She was issued a new birth certificate with our names on it just as if we had given birth to her, ourselves.

Her mother is out of prison for time served and good behavior. She met another inmate, became involved and they now have a son and are living in Florida. So far things are working out for her and she is going through a drug treatment program.

Kira is doing well in school, pulls straight A's and has her own dreams, but also knows that she will not be living with her mother.

They have visited with each other and she knows that her mother has her own life and her mother knows that Kira has hers. Plus how fortunate that they both can now communicate daily by facebook!

Maybe someday when Kira turns eighteen and she is out on her own that will be a different story, but something tells me, maybe not. They had a wonderful visit this summer when we took her down to Florida for a vacation to see her Mom. That seemed just enough!.

Kira now seems ready for middle school to start, girl scouts and to get back to her Volleyball team.

Kira is ready for her life to get back to normal.