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FINALLY!!!! We had E's perm. hearing schedule for today, same old thing every 6 months and NOTHING has changed since the LAST one. Our attorney came and mentioned to the judge that he had not received the required paperwork from our worker then he had to go. He talked with our worker who told him she would have it by the end of the week. Our worker wanted us to reapply for the subsidy because of E's recent sensory diagnosis for the "handicap rate"!!! Not thinking I got caught up in the emotion of waiting FOREVER to get that back knowing we are so close it would essentially be starting over again with a 2nd subsidy-we are talking 3 months before we are even ready to submit to the court for a date, so at least 5 months before we adopt E. I was upset and said we don't care about the higher rate anyway we just want him to be our son as soon as possible. There is still a chance that somebody from his birth family could stop the adoption, no its not likely, but you know what anyone would be upset at the chance of loosing a child no matter how remote that chance may be. I want this done and over with, no more worries. Our attorney came in on the discussion and was concerned. Then I thought, umm hey doesn't E already have the "handicap rate"? She looked and sure enough, due to his asthma, he already has that rate.....all that worry for nothing, I'm talking my heart dropped. Also she was holding things up with the thought that thought that we needed to reapply. We were delayed 2 hours due to a case scheduled in front of us. Finally we get in front of the judge. She nailed a date down for our worker to send our attorney the paperwork he needs to proceed, THIS FRIDAY!!!! After talking a bit about E and how he is doing she said that it would be wonderful if we could schedule his adoption for national adoption day!!!!!! NOVEMBER 15th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is actually on the weekend so I'm not sure how it works, however, there will be a big celebration. She asked me if we were okay with a public adoption, heck ya, if it gets us a closer date. She asked the worker to arrange for that. I feel it was more of a suggestion but our worker wrote it down. I am going to call our attorney and let him know that is the date the judge would like us to adopt E!!! That gets us a month closer then I had hoped for. I don't want to set myself up for disapointment, no matter what happens we will have our adoption day. I am soooooo excited!!!!!! Also we are almost done with our private homestudy! All necessary paperwork is almost done, waiting on yet another physical for J and myself. A homevisit from our SW, September 20th. Then we are done done done! So before Christmas we very well could have a baby. What a Christmas present that would be, eh!? L