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We received word today that we are authorized for a sibling group we signed up for at a matching party in February. I'm so excited!!! We go Friday to get their disclosure information, and meet the adoption supervisor, our new CW (ours left DHS in March), and possibly meet the children's worker, as she works in the same building.
Anyway just wanted to share. I know everyone will want any stats I can give and still keep the kids info safe, so I'll try and post more after Friday!
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we make this decision.
This just might very well be our future children, and words can't explain just how excited we are at the possibility. It's so good to finally see our file moving instead of sitting!!:banana:
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Congrats Sunflower!
It's an exciting and stressful time while you're trying to make this kind of decision - at least it was for us. I hope that everything works out well for all of you. So you've met the children already? Are they boys/girls and how old are they (if you feel you can tell us)? Meeting them first must take so much of the anxiety and guesswork out of the decision. Are you ready for them if you say yes, or do you have renos/decorating/shopping to do first?
Thinking of you,
Dawn H.
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Thanks Dawn! We "met" them so to speak at a matching party in Feb. However, since I Was still getting over pnuemonia and bronchitis we stayed away from all the kids and just observed them with others.
We won't get to "officially" meet them until after we review their disclosures and decide if we can parent them. We were told to expect around 100 pages on each child, so we have 2 weeks to review everything and make a decision. If we accept visitations will start, WEEEEEEEEEE!!!
There are two of them, Girl J is 10, Boy J is 8, we have one room completely done, but haven't gotten the other one finished yet. We just moved into a new place barely over a week ago, we plan on finishing the second room within the next few weeks, right now the finished room is decorated in all hockey stuff, stuffed animals and ice age toys lol. Obviously once we spend more time with them the room will change to better suit them. We have decided that they will help us decorate their rooms and chose their bedding so they can feel some ownership in it. But at least until they start living with us perm. they have things to play with and sleep on lol. I'm still so very excited, I can't wait for Friday to get here. I really just hope I can control my excitement and let my head and not emotions take over.
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Congrats to you on your match.....wow, sounds like you have some heavy reading to do this weekend! It interests me to hear how different counties do adoption as we were never given any papers to read when we were mathched with our boys...I think it's great as the more information you have the better....let us know how tomorrow goes....2 weeks to make a decision seems like a long time to me, do they live close to you or are they going to have to change school districts? Are they going to transition them during the summer or before??? Sorry, it's the teacher in me that is wondering...LOL!
Best of luck to you and your family!!!
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Congrats to you on your match.....wow, sounds like you have some heavy reading to do this weekend! It interests me to hear how different counties do adoption as we were never given any papers to read when we were mathched with our boys...I think it's great as the more information you have the better....let us know how tomorrow goes....2 weeks to make a decision seems like a long time to me, do they live close to you or are they going to have to change school districts? Are they going to transition them during the summer or before??? Sorry, it's the teacher in me that is wondering...LOL!
Best of luck to you and your family!!!
LOL!
Wow I can't imagine making a decision based only on meeting the children, that would be hard. But yes it is amazing the way different counties and states do things.
They haven't talked about the transitioning period at all yet, I'm guessing they may not until we say yes. However, DH and I agreed that if we were matched with any children and began transitioning any point during the last two months of a school year (or semester), we would request a long transition. The children do not live in our city, but our city is simply a suburb of the city they do live in. We are going to request a longer transition (as in they don't start living in our house on a permanent basis), because school here gets out around the 2nd or so of June. We do not want to be moving these kids from their school with only a few weeks to go. I just think that would be too traumatizing. If we moved them in and kept them in their current schools it would mean they would have to get up very very early, and I think that might be too hard on them also. If DHS absolutely refuses then we will go ahead and do the quick transistion but keep them in their current school. I just think moving them home wise and school wise is asking for trouble. I want their transition to go smooth and easy not, wham bam, now here's your new life (fully equiped with new parents, new school, new nighborhood, now time to find new friends too). I wouldn't like it if I were a child.
Thanks everyone for the well wishes, I'm so super excited about tomorrow. I'm trying to get all the :banana: :banana: and the likes out of me now because I've been warned by more than one person, we must check our hearts at the door when we walk into this meeting.
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