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So we have returned from our vacation and survived the holidays.\u00a0Time to get back on the emotional\u00a0adoption roller coaster, with all the emotional rushes, crazy happy highs with super fast sad lows, mental inversions and those fun loopy loops that get thrown at you along the way.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Four hundred and eighty nine days ago we completed our homestudy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Four hundred and eighty nine days ago\u00a0we sat and looked through the big bulletin book and found 12 kidos profiles that we liked.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Four hundred and eighty nine days ago at the top of our list, our very first selection was\u00a0a cute 4 year old boy.<\/p>\n

Well, today (1\/3\/2011) four hundred and eighty nine days later,\u00a0we got a response back from that kido’s caseworker and attorney coupled with 66 pages of additional information on the now, still cute, 5 year old boy.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is Anthony woke up this morning and said that we would hear from adoption clinician\u00a0today. That he had a weird premonition that we would. And sure enough we did! Now why can’t he get some premonitions\u00a0on some Powerball numbers?<\/em><\/p>\n

On our last ride on the adoption emotional\u00a0roller coaster\u00a0our stress level got \u00a0pretty high and it got pretty emotional as we de-boarded the ride vehicle\u00a0\u00a0(see old post)<\/a>. But those experiences have seemed to have had a tempering effect on us. So far we are handling the first big hill on the adoption roller coaster pretty well. That or it was the Disney World Therapy.<\/p>\n

Our adoption clinician\u00a0is setting up a conference call with the kiddo’s caseworker and therapist for sometime next week. So we have started creating a list of questions for the conference call. We have done this twice before on other kiddo’s so we get to kinda cheat and use our old questions as a guide for the new questions LOL.<\/p>\n

Again, just to recap the process. This is step two of many many steps, so hold the applause. If we still like the kiddo after the confernce call and the kiddo’s caseworker still likes us, there likely will be more questions and more follow ups.<\/p>\n

If at the end of that process the caseworker will select \u00a0up to three families from a pool of unknown (to us) hopefuls.. They only take the best three matches and we don’t know how many other families the caseworker is talking to. Based on how cool this kido is on paper, it should be a lot! We could be a\u00a0big fish in a small pond or a\u00a0small fish in a big pond. We will not know for a long time.<\/p>\n

So to make a long story short (too late)<\/em>, it’s WAY <\/strong>to early to get excited about anything…\u00a0other then the first drop. Arms up everyone!<\/p>\n

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