BIG NEWS! So, last post I was discouraged because of paperwork confusion. On Wednesday morning I woke up to my doorbell ringing. It was the FedEx guy! He delivered the last 2 documents we needed! So I got up and got ready really fast and called my friend Christine. She agreed to come with me to Montgomery to get the dossier certified (I didn't want to go by myself). So we went to the Lee County Courthouse first for the county certification and then we drove to downtown Montgomery for the state certification! and I will just let you know after waiting for these 2 documents for what seemed like forever neither places even looked at any of the documents. It literally took less than 5 minutes in the Secretary of State (Montgomery office) I was like..REALLY?! When we were leaving I asked Christine why they didn't actually look at any of the documents and she said it was probably because I had everything tabbed and super organized and if I had been fumbling around in a pile of paperwork they would have probably looked at every single thing I had.. Anyway it was such a relief to have this part complete! So when I got home I had to get ready for work really fast! The next day on Thursday I gathered everything I needed to take my dossier to FedEx to send to the US Pack which is the courier service that will actually walk my dossier through certification at the Dept of State and then the Thai Embassy. I overnighted the package on Thursday before work and it was delivered to US Pack on Friday afternoon! YAY! I spoke with the lady there and she said it will be about a 10 days process. We feel so relieved and blessed to be through this big step!!
On Saturday we had our International Adopting Clinic seminar at Children's Hospital in Birmingham. It was a really great seminar that told us about what to expect when traveling and once we get home with our baby! We met a few families there who are adopting from Moldova (eastern Europe) and China. For one family they were on their 8th adoption from China! It was really cool to meet other families in the adoption process across Alabama!
Anyway it was a great Mother's Day weekend and we are truly very blessed! We cannot wait to be on the waiting list! We will keep you updated!
Great news!
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