The Paperchase Continues . . . .

It's only Tuesday, and this week has already been filled with so much craziness! We finally received the documents I sent to Richmond for apostille on Saturday, only to find out that two of them must be redone. Today I met with our FC (family coordinator) to discover that 4 of the apostilled documents must also be redone. Two of which were our medicals which are a bit difficult to obtain in the first place. For some reason they completed our medicals but not on letterhead. This is unacceptable--why didn't I catch that? As soon as I left the agency, I drove to the doctor's office to see what could be done. We go to a group of doctors, so we don't always see the same one and at this point I didn't care. I was not going to leave until a doctor, any doctor filled out our health form on letterhead. After explaining my situation to several people at the doctor's, someone finally came up with a solution to fix the documents, but their notary had already gone home for the day. Here's my "but God" moment for the day: I have a friend who is a notary and she hopped in her car and met me at the doctors to notarize the signature. Just when you think there is no solution, God steps in--I love 'but God' moments. Thank you Jesus and thank you Chelle!
Thursday I will drive to Richmond and get these fixed documents apostilled so we can DHL them to Moscow on Friday for translation and ultimately receive a court date soon. This journey just keeps us laughing, crying and on our knees. It will be so worth it when we have Natalie in our arms. Steve reminded me that Sunday was Natalie's last Easter without her family. :)

Karen