Thursday, June 30, 2011

The Assistant Stork

Our paperwork has successfully this time arrived at the Assistant Stork! They will be working on it next week, they have reassured us that we are not the only people who have messed up our paperwork and ours wasn't the worst mix up either! Thank God!
We are so excited that Isaiah's room is almost finished! We just need to put together our dresser and everything will be ready for him! Now we just need to hurry up and get our court date :) There is a slight possibility that he could be spoiled.....just maybe.
We are getting closer and closer to Josh leaving for school in Missouri. He will leave July 9th and be back in November......please keep us both in your prayers!

Friday, June 10, 2011

taking a deep breath

Well there is not much happening, just waiting on our paperwork to get to Ethiopia and get translated. After that we should hear something about a court date. We had a mix up with our paperwork...we sent everything to the Dept of State not the TN Secretary of State to be authenticated. This was supposed to be forwarded to The Stork but they wouldn't forward it, we had to fax them a letter giving permission for The Stork to pick it up and finally it got into the right hands. We had to get another copy of 2 pages and get it notarized again and sent to the TN Secretary of State, when we get it back we can then send it to The Stork, they will check everything and then take it back to the Dept of State to be authenticated and then send it on the Ethiopia. Wow what a mess! Today has been very very stressful, I am so glad we got it straightened out. Josh is so awesome! He is always so cool and clam under pressure, its a good balance from my panicking and stressing. Thanks Josh! :)
The Stork is a courier service that makes sure all of the paperwork in the dossier is correct and makes sure it gets to the right place. They have been so wonderful and have really gone above and beyond to help us. They reassured us that we are not the only people who have really screwed up our adoption paperwork.
On a brighter note, we have painted Isaiah's room wonder blue which I love! Our theme is going to be Winnie the Pooh so we ordered some wall decals. We are super excited, trying to get the big stuff done before Josh goes to his officer training in July.
Josh got pinned Lieutenant on Saturday during family day!!!! He will be leaving for training on July 10 and wont be home until November. We will be in KY June 24th this will be the last time he is home for awhile so we will try to see everyone that we can.