The final push...

What a week! Since we now have all of our "hard to get" government approvals and forms in we are going ahead full speed with the final dossier work. It's great news but we're going crazy trying to get everything together, completed, notarized correctly, etc. This involves trips all over the place to get more stuff from the bank, the doctor, the accountant, the social worker, and on and on and on... And then there are the massive FedEx bills we have for overnighting documents all over the country and back so we can get stuff done quickly. And when a document (that we've worked on for weeks and spent $45 mailing back and forth) comes back with black ink instead of blue for the notary signature, or with the date written out a different way, or a signature that doesn't include a middle initial used previously, and we have to start over....  Yikes! I had no idea how crazy this stuff got. And to think, once we're done with all this notary stuff, it has to go to the state and Federal levels to be authenticated or apostilled (basically where the notary is notarized). Thankfully our agency does that part!!

To make a long, boring story short - we are hopeful that we'll be able to get the whole thing in by Monday at the latest. Then the worst of the work on our end is over and the real waiting begins.

Kiddo, we love you a lot to get through this "paper pregnancy". :)