The Chinese Consulate Rocks!
I finally received our certified documents back from the Secretary of State yesterday. It makes me incredibly nervous to be sending all of our financial and personal documents like our birth certificates, etc., through the mail!
I was so excited today. I spent 1 1/2 hours at Kinko’s/FedEx making the proper copies & filling out the paperwork which, like everything else related to this adoption, must be exact. Poor Sean had to hang out w/me (due to a cold – no school today). Fortunately he’s still easy to entertain. He helped by pushing the “PRINT” button for each of the 4,000 copies needed. The only excitement was when the machine jammed and I had to open ‘er up to un-jam. I wasn’t about to leave it since the paper I was copying was my birth certificate. Not a good thing to leave about!
If all goes well, we’ll have our dossier completed and sent to our agency in about 3 weeks. Then, to China 2 – 3 weeks after that. I estimate we’ll be in China around October of next year, if there are no delays, and the bird flu doesn’t start spreading easily between humans. I’m praying that our referal and process goes quickly.
