Barreling Turtle

Looking at that title, it's probably too late at night for me to be blogging. ;)

Oh well. Here I am. Matt's running over to help our neighbor start her truck, so I might as well do something!

It's hard to believe it's been two weeks since my last update on the blog! It feels like life's been barreling along since then, and even with that, things are only moving along as quickly as, well, a turtle.

Last Monday we heard from our primary agency that our dossier had been received and reviewed by our Bulgarian agency (yay!) and that we needed to send over one additional and one corrected paper. Phew. The additional one was easy — just an addendum to the contract that we needed to sign, but no notary, no apostille. The other one required getting a new one-page document from our local home study agency because the one we'd sent only referred to the "children adopted by the Glewwe family" whereas it needed to have both our full names and the girls' full names on it. And that one needed the notary and apostille, so one rainy morning Reuben and I drove to the agency, picked it up, drove it downtown for the apostille, and got it stuck in the mail. It only took about an hour and a half (Gloria was home with Dad and slept the whole time! Yay!), but Reuben was having a rough morning, and was screaming for roughly 40% of the trip. Phew.

But we got it off that afternoon...and then realized I'd forgotten about the "easy" paper in my concentration on getting the complicated one. So that one got out the next day.

Thankfully, we were able to send a digital copy of the new paper to Bulgaria for her to begin translating, so this shouldn't delay things TOO much. We're still waiting to hear, though, that the dossier has been submitted to the MOJ. Once that happens, we're anticipating about six weeks before we travel to meet the girls!!