Getting Closer!

We are getting so much closer! Thursday Erich and I took off work to authenticate the last (we hope) of the documents. Silly me left the I-171H at work! We had to drive to Covington and pick it up before we got started. That was about an hour delay. From there we headed to Batavia for our criminal reports and to have them and the copy of the I-171H county certified. We swung by Springboro, OH to pick up our Home Study from Cherub International. They had it all ready for us (notorized and county certified). From there we drove to Columbus. We had great directions from FTIA (new adoption agency) and mapquest. We got there about 3:35 PM. We parked on the street where it was a tow away zone starting at 4 PM. Erich thought he'd come out and move it if it got close to time. Turned out, we didn't even need to. We were done, with the 4 doc's state authenticated and still had 22 minutes left on the meter. Excellent! We were on our way home!

Friday I made copies of the doc's and faxed them to our coordinator at FTIA. She gave the OK and we overnighted them to Asst Stork. I just tracked on UPS and it's on it's way! Five doc's left to get authenticated at the China Consulate. Erich's employement verification was sent in the previous packet was not signed by the notary. That document was reviewed by our old agency, new agency, and Asst Stork and was not caught. The DC Secretary of State (or whatever they call themselves) caught it. Steve called Tuesday to let us know. We had him overnight it to MD and they overnight it back to Asst Stork. This shows you that the slightest thing can make it all go haywire!