CASA is "Court Appointed Special Advocate" and they are often the most objective voice in court. Cookie's former CASA either retired from it or moved elsewhere back in December I think, but the new one came to meet with Cookie's current foster parents yesterday and she sounds very on top of things.

She hadn't yet read through all the notes left to her, but she said she's not a "burnt out" worker and will read through the whole thing. She's also going to talk to Cookie's mom face-to-face and she's likely to call us (the last one did, but it took her forever to get around to it).

So that's promising!

In the meantime, I need to make my flight arrangements for the Feb. court hearing... which is the day before my birthday.