Sunday, December 18, 2011

Maybe, juuuuust maybe...

Possibly.

We might have something incredible coming our way.  Maybe.  We're trying not to get ahead of ourselves, but that's harder than I thought it would be.

We have preliminary approval to adopt a sweetums through the China Special Focus program.  He is just over 2 years old, and absolutely perfect.  Has a special need which we can't disclose just yet.  It's minor in the grand scheme of things, although it is obvious (hence him being on the Special Focus list). 

He's really, really cute and overall really healthy. 
What happens now?  We have a lot of work to do.  Updated homestudy, re-fingerprinting, re-doing our dossier (well, creating a China dossier).  Saving money like biggest tightwads on earth. 

Once we have a  new homestudy, a new dossier and new Hague-certified fingerprints we submit everything to China.  They say yay or nay.  Usually if preliminary approval has been given the powers that be say yay to final approval, but we haven't always had the best luck with things going smoothly (to put it mildly).  We don't have a whole lotta faith left in the system, but maybe, just maybe, juuuuuust maybe.....

We can't let ourselves get excited.  But we are kind of in love. 

OK, not kinda.  Totally and completely head over heels. 

In.

Love.

But not excited at all.

Yeah, right.

:-)

12 comments:

  1. WHAT??? Oh, that is SOOOO exciting! DETAILS! I know you can't probably share them, but holy moly that is AWESOME!!
    -A

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  2. OMG you must send me an email with details because 1) I am nosy like that 2) I am OVER THE MOON FOR YOU!! 3) I've had a very rough couple of days and would like a pick me...and I guess that sounds pretty selfish. Actually, just reading something this exciting for you is just the pick me I needed! :) HUGS!!

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  3. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SO EXCITING I'M USING CAPSLOCK!!!!!!!!!!! AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO KNOW MORE!!!!!!!! AMAZING, AMAZING NEWS!!!!!!!!


    (DID I SAY !!!!!!!!!!! YET?)

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  4. Holy Christmas! NO WAY!!!! This is so awesome--congratulations to you both!!! I know it's not done-done, but it's an awesome step. YES! BEST NEWS EVER. What a great Christmas gift! Details when you can share them, lady!
    -Shannon

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  5. Congrats to you two! We should talk -- would you email us through the blog?

    Alan and Lindy

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  6. What AWESOME news! Praying things work out and this baby boy is in your arms SOON!

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  7. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Amy x

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  8. Yes!!!! So happy and excited for you.....I'm in my office doing the Snoopy dance! And high fiving myself :)

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  9. Congratulations! This is so exciting. What an amazing step you are making in this journey. I see you have connected with Alan and Lindy (Alan commented above), and I know they can tell you all about this process. They are just about ready to make their travel plans! I'm very happy for you, and I'll be anxious to hear more as the process unfolds. Happy holidays to you, indeed!

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  10. Hey you two. Haven't received your email yet... planetrh2009 at gmail dot com.

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  11. Hey, this is really exciting!!! I know it is hard to have any faith in this process, hope you are managing your anxiety around that as much as you can. Any idea of rough timelines, how long to submit additional paperwork and then how long to travel after approval? Wow, wow, wow!!!

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  12. I've been out of blog land for a while and am so happy to come and see this news!!

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