Adoption Paperchasing to the Max!

Whew! What a looooonnggg day of paperchasing! Productive, but llllloooonnnnngggg!
It started out with a trip to get some docs notarized. Then 45 minutes at the City Clerks office getting things certified. (Today we did Dougherty Co. and then tomorrow we'll drive to Lee Co and do those.) Next stop was a quick bite to eat with Daddy. On to the bank to pick up cashiers checks and then to daddy's office to get something printed off his computer and make copies. Off again to the UPS store to have things mailed off!!!

We mailed the HS to Atlanta and a few documents to the Sec. of State's office for certification.

All total, it was a VERY productive day. Annalyse is cutting her 1st set of molars so she made for one difficult 15mo old, but we made it home and all is well.

I did learn one very valuable lesson: PRAY PRAY PRAY. The first part of our morning was terrible. We had a glitch with one document, I locked myself out of the house in the pouring down rain, and Jay and I were snapping at each other left and right. After realizing that the enemy was attacking, I spend the next 10 minutes praying over the remainder of our day in detail. Everything from the baby's behavior, to the accuracy of the documents, and the ability to see the bigger picture was covered. Satan would love nothing more than to make this process frustrating and tiring. he wants us to question why we are putting all this effort out and why we are even doing all this in the first place. We will not allow him to have an inch more! We just pray the name of Jesus over every detail and let the Lord remind us of the end result. Sometimes it;s hard to keep our hearts on the fruit of our efforts, but we know one day that this will all be a faded memory, replaced by the giggle of a brown-eyed baby girl.

Please join us as we pray that the things we sent to ATL arrive there safely, are accurate, and return to us safely. Please pray that our fingerprint appointment in ATL is a time that works for Jay's schedule. Thank you guys so much!!!