After 21 years raising kids again

The beginning!

It all started when my teenage daughter met a girl in the vice principal's office and they became best friends. The next thing I knew my daughter's best friend was pregnant at the age of 15. I had been there for this girl and I brought her to all her doctors appointments for this baby and I picked out the name for the baby. I have treated my daughters best friend like she was my own daughter. So me and my family took care of the baby while the mother wanted to party. two years later she had another baby girl. Two years after that she had a baby boy. Two years after that she had another baby boy. In September 2017 I took her girls. She could not take care of them anymore. Her little boy who is with his father so she didn't have to worry about him. So she is free with no worries. She gave me temporary guardianship over her two girls. It was only supposed to be for six months. She was supposed to get her own place an order to take the girls back. After six months was up she still hadn't done anything so I took her to court for custody of the girls. During this time she was pregnant again for her fourth child. I knew she was pregnant so I made her take a pregnancy test and before she took it she said "if I am I don't want it I don't even want to take it home from the hospital". So me and my husband talked about it and we decided to take the baby but if we did the baby was going to be ours for good she is not to take the baby back for no reason. I took her to her first and only doctors appointment for this little baby and her first sonogram we found out it was going to be a boy. We had about three weeks to prepare for the baby our a little boy. She allowed us to give him our last name. I little boy was born two months early. He has been through a lot in his life spent the first three weeks in the hospital came home for a couple weeks and then spent two weeks more in the hospital because he had stopped breathing. She got indicated for child abuse on our little boy for drugs and alcohol. She also got indicated for child abuse on the two girls. It has been over a year and a half and she still has not gotten her life together to take her girls back. She's homeless she stays with her friends and she parties all the time. I've tried my best to get her on the straight and narrow to be a better mom. So at this point in my life and I have given up on her. I want to move away from where I live now with these children so they can have a better life away from her. But I can't because I'm not blood related to the children and she will not let me take them. I will do everything in my power to protect his children I love them with all my heart they are my world they're the reason why I get up every morning and take care of them every day.