Dossier Update

We just checked FedEx tracking and it appears that our apostilled FBI fingerprint cards are in route from West Virginia so that is great news. Also, our adoption coordinator reviewed scans of all of our paperwork earlier in the week and almost everything looked good. We did have to go to the county courthouse today and obtain certified marriage licenses because the certified statements of marriage that we ordered from the state were not adequate. It is funny to see Matt's chicken scratch of a signature on our marriage license and to remember how he and Mia met at our wedding. Of course Anne's name is also on the license as the other witness and we recently heard great news that she had successfully sold her old house and moved to a place much closer to her job near downtown Denver. Way to go Anne! Next Thursday we have an appointment with our traveling notary at our doctor's office so we should get that difficult medical form out of the way soon. We have about ten other documents that are now ready to be signed by us and get notarized early next week so hopefully next Friday we will be ready to go to the Secretary of State's Office in downtown Kansas City and get all of the local document apostilled. After that has been completed, we just need to make about 150 pages of copies and then ship the dossier and copies off to our adoption agency so it can all be translated.

In other great news, we found out earlier this week that our sister, Lisa, was offered a new job in St. Louis. She will be the school nurse at Webster University starting sometime in January. Congratulations Lisa! We hope that everyone stays safe during this first bout of nasty winter weather and hopefully we can get our Christmas cards out sometime in the next ten days or so... but of course the dossier comes first!