Another Round of the Doozy of a Dossier

I fear my little buddy is wishing he had preschool more than twice a week!  I tried to explain that the Davidson County Clerk and the Tennessee Secretary of State are a lot of fun, but he wasn't buying it!

Our second original dossier left for Moldova today.  We received word a few weeks ago that the court in Moldova wanted its own set of original everything and didn't want to have to share with the Ministry of Justice, who does the matching of children to families.  Frustrated but not defeated, I began to scurry to again collect all the documents from birth certificates and marriage certificates to notarized medical information from our doctor.  The good news was I had done it before and knew I was capable of doing it again.  The bad news was that I had to do it again.

For this round I pulled in my neighbor Kendria who is a notary public.  She walked over to our home on a Saturday afternoon.  While her little man played with our little men, we signed 18 documents for her.  I then assembled her 18 documents and four from Catholic Charities and headed to my friend and doctor, Missy.  I kidnapped her and her sweet babe from their home and took them to see Luis at Wells Fargo for the final notarizing of medical information.  After a donut (or two) from Krispy Kreme (the adoption process requires jolts of sugar at times), Gavin and I headed to the county clerk's office for a quick visit with Robyn.  Next, we made our way to the Secretary of State's office to see our new friend Jamie again.  Although the filming of some movie about Elvis's brother consumed the parking space made for me on the last visit, Bradley, the hotel parking dude, let me park for a very minimal fee.  I was grateful to not have to spin around downtown looking for a space.

After a quick trip to pick up Elliot at school, we had deja vu as we pulled into the parking lot of Fed Ex Kinko's to send another package to our agency in Texas.  Richard from our agency added a few apostilled documents themselves and sent it over the Atlantic.

Here's hoping that this is the last Halloween we spend without our new little one from Moldova!

"Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth!"

Psalm 100:1