The Dossier is in the Mail

First thing this morning we took our dossier to FedEx and got it in the mail. It definitely feels great having it completed and mailed off and we certainly look forward now to relaxing and enjoying the upcoming Christmas holiday.

Now that the dossier is out the door, it is somewhat nice to think back on the paperwork process that we went through. Yesterday, after all of the dossier copies were made, we made sure that we provided a picture of the stack that included both English and metric measurements since we will have to gradually prepare ourselves for international travel. Today we have included a picture of the three different apostilles (gold seals from the Secretary of State) that we needed for our dossier. The majority of our documents required the Missouri seal which is on the left, but the paperwork from our adoption agency needed the Georgia seal (middle), and finally our FBI fingerprint cards were processed in West Virginia so that seal is on the right. Our adoption agency has done a great job answering questions throughout this paperwork process and everyone at each of the government agencies has truely been wonderful and helpful.



We were able to go out tonight and celebrate with our friends Adam and Angela along with our godchildren, Allison and Andrew. Although we were certainly pleased about mailing off the dossier, we were actually celebrating Angela's graduation from UMKC. Congratulations Angela!