Since I had already met with our Dr. at the notary, the only 2 signatures remaining were both employees at D's work. It was very hard for me to let him handle that as tactfully as he did. But, as of yesterday, both of them had stopped by the notary for us! Yay!! Now I need to make them some brownies or something! ;-) I called the notary this morning and they said that hopefully they will all be certified by Monday, but it should be no later than Tuesday. I really hope they are right! I called D and he is going to try to take Tuesday off work so he can drive to Köln and try to get the authenticated right then. Considering it's just a corner folded down and stapled to their form then a stamp over the corner, I wouldn't imagine it would take that long for them to do it. If all goes well with them, I might head to the Crescent Moon embassy Wednesday morning to get the final authentication. I will probably pay a bit more to have the 2-day service, but not pay more for same day service. I'm assuming "same day" means I would have to wait until the last minute they are open that day rather than just waiting an hour or so and I just don't have that much time in the mornings. As it is, I'm a bit nervous about the prospect of driving there while DJ & L are in school because if there are many delays, that could create a HUGE problem when I'm not able to pick them up in time. Once we get those back, we will ship them back to our placing agency via the fastest mail option we can reasonably afford. If all goes well, we should hopefully be able to get everything there in time for them to forward them to Crescent Moon before the deadline of September 13th. You know, when we started this process, I was determined to be the family who does everything in record time because I would fill out forms and return them without ever setting them down and then we wouldn't have to wait for anything. HA!! Turns out, me doing everything as quickly as I can doesn't amount to much when I still have to wait on lots of others. Though God is really helping me to deal with the waiting much better than I was even a few weeks ago, so that's good!!
Except for the dream I had last night.... In my dream, there was a portion of our documents that also had to be authenticated in London. For some reason, I held onto them while we were waiting on local people to visit the notary. In my dream, I finally realized that I should've mailed those to London as soon as I had them so they could be there and back by the time I finally got the local authentication done. So, I panicked big time because not only were we going to have to drive local documents to Köln, but now I was going to also have to drive other documents all the way to London to be authenticated there! It sounds silly, but it was like the world was crashing down in my dream because there was no way I could possibly drive to London and I no longer had time to wait for them if I mailed them now. In real life, we have nothing to do with London but it's still not a good feeling to wake up after stressing all night like that! Luckily, the good news from the notary trumps that ridiculous dream! :-)
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