A. I am about to give you a list of what has been going on here.... or
B. I am " run down"...or
C. both
Unfortunately option "c" best describes my week. So here's the "run down"....
Monday our I-797 arrived in the mail (FINALLY)...so I needed to get all our paperwork in order and fax it to our agency for them to look over. I also had to call our homestudy agency and have them send us our clearances.
Tuesday after lunch I ran to the county courthouse to notarize clearances and a few other papers. Before I went, I decided to check with the Secretary of State to see when I could go up to apostille my papers. She said I could only have them done Wednesday morning by 8:30. So I ran home, packed, and loaded my kids in the car. We made the 1 1/2 drive to my sister's house so the kids could stay with their Uncle Steve while Aunt Holly helped me drive the next four hours to Albuquerque. (I fall asleep at the wheel way too easy, so going by myself was not an option.) We also picked up my mom on the way. Apparently we have not had a girl's night out since my niece was a toddler and my mom was in chemo the first time (so roughly 13 years ago). It was about time to escape. ;)
Wednesday we left Albuquerque and drove to Santa Fe. Santa Fe is not a fun city to drive in...way too many one way streets. And then we zoomed (ok, my mom does not zoom, but we slowly zoomed) through the capitol building looking for the Secretary of States office. Once found, I was informed that they would only apostille about 2/3's of my documents. (Apparently the adoption agency failed to mention that I would have to mail all the other paperwork to the states they originated from.) Holly, Mom, and I also squeezed a mini shopping trip in there too.
Thursday I spent most of the day figuring out where my paperwork needed to go. So I filled out forms and wrote checks for the rest of the paperwork. Oh and we fit birthday cupcakes and presents in...for my littlest guy! He's two now!
Why do they have to grow up?
Friday I gathered up all my paperwork and headed to the county courthouse again to notarize one more piece of paper and then buy envelopes for all the documents that needed mailed. I decided that Micah, Noel, and Matt needed to do school since they missed wednesday, so they stayed home; I took Orrin and Matt with me. About ten minutes in to being at the courthouse, I realized that I should have had all my kids with me, because Micah was supposed to be at a 4-H shooting practice, so I raced home and got the kids and drove back to town. When I pulled up at the shooting range everyone was sitting there waiting for me. Embarrassing --I hate being late!!! So I again dropped off Micah and ran back in to town to mail my documents and buy a picnic lunch for the kids. After the 4-H shoot was over, I drove the kids to the Tularosa River to play in the water and they promtly forgot all of my wild and crazy antics for the day.
And now I sit here in a vegetative state hoping that next week will not be like this week. I hope we can get all our paperwork back easily and I can send off our Dossier to the adoption agency. But you just never know... oh, and speaking of vegetative, apparently Orrin's week was just as hard as mine...
Turning two is aweful hard on a kid.
I hope my post isn't as boring for you as it was for him. :)
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