Documents Certified

Unfortunately Friday did not go as smoothly as I had hoped. I try to be so organized that I am disappointed in myself when things don't go smoothly. I met Kevin in Oneonta Friday to get the documents notarized. When I took the documents to the Blount County Probate Office to get certification of the notary, I learned that the notary was not from Blount County. So we had to make new copies, find a Blount County notary, and go back to the Probate Office. Kevin helped with a lot of this so I could get back to work.

I know God uses my gut many times at work and in my personal life. I had a gut feeling when I was driving back to work that we may have not done something correctly with the home study. I told Kevin to hold off in mailing the documents to the Secretary of State until I spoke with CCAI. I learned that I did not need to get the home study notarized by us. It was notarized when it was sent to us. Therefore, I had to find out what county the notary was bonded and get the certification. I was disappointed to have just figured this out since I have had the home study for a few weeks. Anyway, Kevin took Monday morning off to drive to Huntsville (Madison County) to get the certification. So all the documents were mailed to the Secretary of State on Monday.

Today, we received the letters from the Secretary of State. We are almost done. Yea! I was able to get everything ready during lunch in anticipation of receiving the letters. So tomorrow, I will put everything in the mail to the US Consulate for authentication.

Over the weekend, we got the extra passport photos we need for submission of our dossier. We also got all the family life and couple pictures printed for our dossier. We tried to make sure that everyone in our family was captured in the photos. So when they are looking at our pictures, they will have seen all our family.

Thanks for the prayers. So far things are flying by. Pray that the US Consulate quickly authenticates our documents. All we will lack in making copies and sending to CCAI for review.