BRING BABY KAYDEN HOME

I will begin this by repeating what was replaying in my head when my eyes opened this morning after I had finally managed to get a few hours of sleep.......he didn't know. He didn't know that his momma wasn't really gonna take him out to dinner , he didn't know that in the black of the night he was going to be handed over to complete strangers , he didn't know that he was not going to get to come back home and ride is favorite brand new trike or play with his cars, he didn't know that he wouldn't get to see his daddy, or nana or uncle again. And we didn't know either or we would have saved him!

On Friday Febuary the 5th I recieved a call from my daughter informing me that she was coming to pick up her son and take him out to eat. Well I was of course delighted and so excited that she was gonna spend some time with him. As I got him ready and we talked (he is not 2 just yet his birthday is March 5 so it was mainly just me talking ) we talked about how much fun him and mommy were gonna have . So mommy arrives and I have his car seat ready to load in her car and she request one bottle of milk and 5 diapers all of which I had already packed in a small bag for him . I ask her when she thought they would be back and she says "oh in a few hours or so" . Ok no problem and I give kisses , they leave and I decide to just relax a bit and have some me time. I say some me time because yes I am his nana but I have been Kayden's primary caregiver for these first 2 years of his life . For a variety of reasons my daughter Kayden's mother has well let's just say come and gone in his life . She struggled just after Kayden was born with some pretty severe postpartum depression that disabled her somewhat significantly for almost the first 6 to 9 months . Then from there on she just did not bond well with Kayden and just was not able to be full time mommy. There have been times we did not even know where she was at for a week or more at a time . But we are a family and we get thru these things and Kayden was showered with an enormous amount of love from me (nana), his papa , his uncle and his father .

So the night proceeds forward and at around 10pm I go ahead and give her a call to see what time she thought they might be back . She informs me that they were headed back soon and so I wait , and wait , and wait and .....they never return . I become frantic and by 9am the following morning I am beside myself . I know by this point something is horribly wrong . I can't reach her at all . So, I immidiately call his dad at work and inform him of the situation , I wake his uncle and by noon we had the police standing in our living room . And to our horror when contact was finally made with her by phone she reluctantly admits that she left the state and turned the baby over to her uncle and she is on her way back to Florida without our precious Baby Kayden!!! Oh my god he is gone and he has been left with complete strangers and he has not one toy, blankie, piece of clothing or anything that is his life .

And yes her uncle and his wife are complete strangers to him and they have been going after this baby since my daughter was pregnant ( they have a real need to adopt because the 4 children they have adopted in the last couple of years in addition to the 2 biological children they have had not satisfied them) . This is unbelievable , they finally were able to break down an already unstable young mother into bringing them her child . A child that has an entire family and a father who have repeatedly told them NO! In fact the Sunday prior to this my brother had once again asked me if they could have Kayden?? I again told him NO. And I pretty much told him to leave my family alone and go find a child that needed him because my grandson didn't !!!!

So now here we are and we ARE getting Kayden back. My daughter actually did not have the right to turn him over because fortunately the laws in Florida give fathers the same custodial rights even when the child is born out of wedlock . Starting in the morning the process for dad begins at juvenile court . While we are excited about what we know will be the return of Kayden we are also not sure how to pay all the legal fees that this is now going to cost. Just to file the initial set of paperwork into juvenile court in the morning is going to be $400 in filing fees alone and doesn't count also charges for serving papers , or notarys or attorneys fees . I have NEVER considered for one moment asking for money from anyone but now I am desperate to get our precious Kayden home and to the people he knows and loves and that love him more than anything . I will do whatever it takes even sell one of my kidneys at this point .

Thank you for reading this horribly long explanation.