One small step. . .

I started some of our paperwork yesterday and got it off in today's mail. While we have plenty of time to get this dossier done before CCAI will ship it out, I just wanted to get something moving. I got Jeff''s birth certificate off on it's rounds. Because he was born in Nebraska, his BC has to be verified there and then travel to Washington D.C. for Condoleeza Rice to say, "yep, that person who signed off on this in Nebraska is a real live human being and we say they are okay." Why Nebraska needs this extra step, I'm a bit unclear, something about having forms stolen dozens of years ago or some such thing. I don't get it, but haven't we always known Nebraska is, well, just a little "special." (Just kidding, you know we love all you transplanted Huskers fans.) Anyway, this process took awhile last time so I thought I'd get it moving again.

I also got our I600-A and the first large chunk of money in the mail for the USCIS to begin their magic. Monday we will get our request for a criminal background check into the CBI. We need this for both adoptions. Our county says we must prove we haven't been on a crime spree since February of 2004, (when we had a background check for our first paper chase,) before they will allow Mara's adoption to be finalized and issue her a birth certificate. It will be very good to have all of her paperwork done, finally.

So we are on our way--China here we come--again!