Cuffed with arm guard a little O.T.T??

So we went to court yesterday. 

It went well..ish i guess, it's hard to gaugue these things when it's all going threw a translator, but still it seemed ok.

I won't be going back to court again at least that's what i thought i understood to be the case. Now we will have to wait to hear what the judge has to say about the matter.

We arrived very early and went for a coffee at Starbucks, where they are playing Christmas music, and Sarah ran around looking out of windows at buses, and i was trying very hard to not let her get dirty or to get a bump on her pretty little head. So that was fun, escpailly when she wanted to drink hot chocolate...put the raincoat on and then she could have a sip if i held the cup!!

Then we walked over to court room and arrive an hour before the time we were due to go in, and half an hour before we were meant to be there...it was ok, Sarah ran around like a crazy little 2yearold that she is, and found some fish on a desk and kept wanting to look at them...the women behind the desk thought she was very amussing!. 

I really thought and hoped that we would meet her birth mother and be able to talk to her before the court began or after the court but this was not the case at all. two mins before we were due in she came handcuffed to two police women and a third walked by her. She had her head down and looked like she was cry at any moment. It was really sad and i was worried for her. Then we were let into the room and She was uncuffed and sat oppisite us. she smiled alot and was looking and Sarah and i. It was great to see her smiling. She seemed to be happy to see Sarah. Sarah was of course wanting to run around and at the start got of my lap and did run around for all of a few seconds before i scooped her up. then i had to give her to Tom and he played with her while her birth mother answer questions. One being, why do you want to give this child up. she replied becasue she (as in herself) is sick, a drug addicts and in prison. The judge said you get out of prison in July next year, you know that adoption is for life not just till july. She said she new this and that she would still get to see Sarah from time to time...(not the best answer ever really come one, i mean the next question was bound to come). What if she moves back to England? But her come back wasn't too back, she'll have a better life in England than in Taiwan with me.

So you know all in all it wasn't too bad, right? i don't know. I am more than happy to have a somewhat open adoption, but with in the last 2 years she's spent most of the time in jail and just a few weeks here and there out. Thus i don't think i will get to see her often. Maybe she just wishes that this could be the case. I will certainly send photos, and if i live here and she wants to then yes she can see her.

She was then cuffed again and whisked away. So i didn't get to give her photos of Sarah, or to take a photo of her with Sarah or any of the things i thought i'd be able to do. I really didn't expect her to be under armed guard it all seemed a little over the top to me.

So i will keep you posted as to what on earth happens next! 

I am meant to get a letter or something telling me either way what has happened. Great huh a letter...seems a little strange to me.

We spent the rest of the afternoon together and had fun running and playing in a shopping mall, and we dropped the kitten (tabby) at the vet to have "The Operation!". Sarah kept asking where is Tabby, and pointing to go and get her...she forgot after a bowl of Dough wwarh...(ie sweet tofu, with red beans and ice...it's nice honestly!)

Thanks for all your prayers. I pray for her birth mother and that the judge will deliver the result quickly as the waiting will kill me! do they know what this does to a woman??