I had an unusual opportunity today. It was presented through a changed schedule, a rainy day and a backed-up highway. Bug and I were 25 minutes late to her weekly visit with her mom. After being escorted back to where Mom and Baby Brother were playing, I said my good-bye and started down the hall. Bug's caseworker popped out of the observation area, where she can watch and hear everything during the session through a one way mirror, and said: Do you want to watch?
She asked this, I guess, because we have had many o' discussions about how mom interacts with Bug. CPS has assured me that, despite how this story ever began, there is a Mom in here that adores her child, interacts with her appropriately, and appears to just flat out love being Ladybug's mom.
Sure enough, I watched for 30 minutes as Bug and her mom played, sang (rap songs!), laughed, ate junk food, gave kisses, bonked heads, held the baby...Mom clearly adores Bug. She laughed at her and with her and was 99% attentive to her kids the entire time. Yaay for a young mother figuring it out!
The transition home is coming soon. She'll leave and Beignet and I will still be devastated. But it's helpful to know that she's going somewhere where she is adored just as much as she is here.
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