Extension

We have gotten our extension with Crescent Moon, so now we have until September 13th to get our paperwork in!  That *should* be easy to do.  I hope!  At this point, I'm pretty sick of any and all paperwork and we're not out of the woods yet.  I got an email from our placing agency today and it almost made my head explode when I first read it.  Then a few hours later, I tried to just think about what it had said and it almost made my head explode again.  Now, 12 hours later, I can finally read it.  (Did I ever mention that adoption is a stressful process?)  It looks like instead of them getting our documents authenticated, we are going to have to do all of that ourselves.  It looks like we will have to re-order most, if not all, of our documents with an over-abundance of state seals then get them certified AND notarized in Germany.  Then, we will have to take them to the Crescent Moon embassy, which is in Berlin, to get them authenticated.  Oh, how this stresses me out!  Simply re-ordering all the documents was about a 6-7 on a scale of 10.  But, having to get anything official from the German government is going to be a nightmare!  They won't touch American documents.  It's some weird rule they have.  So, I have NO idea how that's going to work!  Then we have to potentially drive to Berlin.  It's on the other side of the country!  I really hope we can do that by mail, but I'm not even sure they will speak English.  Having German as our common language isn't very comforting.  :-\  We are going to call our placing agency now that they should be in the office and get more clarification, but this is massively overwhelming today.  I really hope this is easier than it sounds because it sounds like climbing Mt. Everest in swim fins might be easier.  :-(