stuff, stuff, and more stuff

Visa application overnighted to the Kazakh Consulate in NY and received by them yesterday. Last expired documents (more HIV tests and GBI fingerprint clearances) overnighted to Sec of State to be apostilled. I hesitate to say this, but I believe that is the last of the major paperwork!! Still need to go through all of our documents and make sure we'll have the right stuff with us in country, and need to go get nice, new, crisp, un-blemished bills for all of our money (which we may have to do in DC).

The major plan for today is to print out a bunch of photos for our kiddo's little photo album (which we'll leave with him between trips), finish our shopping in Savannah (we still need TONS of stuff) and try to get some more gifts for the super important people who will be helping us in Almaty and Semey, and of course, find some time to start packing and cleaning the house. Yesterday we did get a lot done but satan was all over us. I think we were so busy starting early that our precious time with God got shoved out the window - big mistake. Today will be different!

On our quest for gifts yesterday we went to River Street and searched for something significant for all of the baby house caregivers - representative of Savannah/GA and of what these wonderful ladies mean to us. We finally found these cotton boll angels - grown and locally crafted in GA, and the significance of the angel thing is perfect! We had actually received one of these as a gift from my mom many years ago after she visited Savannah. The ones we have are much prettier than the above picture and we hope that the ladies will enjoy them! The only other things that we could think of were Savannah Bee products but we just aren't sure how well honey and bees wax products will travel. We'll probably stick a little angel in a gift bag with some other small item and call it done. Gift shopping for people you don't know is very difficult!!