Visa application

This morning, D & I had an appointment in Frankfurt to apply for our visa to enter Crescent Moon.  We made this appointment late last week and I remembered as we were going to bed last night, so it was a bit more stressful than it could have been.  Luckily, I had made sure to have all of our documents completed and ready to go in 1 envelope, so all we had to do was grab it and go!  (Yay for being prepared!!)  The stressful part was that the appointment was at 9:30 and, while Google said it was an hour and 15 minute drive, we ALWAYS hit a Stau (massive delay, usually stop & go for longer than you care to remember) going to Frankfurt.  We took L to Kindergarten at 7:30, which was when I thought they opened.  I forgot they started opening at 7, but we usually never get there before 8 so it never mattered before.  I dropped her off and quickly told the teachers that N would have to come with us because there was NO way we would make it back by 11, when they demand I pick him up.  L could stay until 12, though, so I told them she would be today.  After that we dropped DJ off at his school and headed out of town.  The GPS said we would arrive at 8:49 for our 9:30 appointment.  D even commented that we might have left a bit too early.  Ha!  4 Stau's later.... (A new record for us, I might add!) We found the building at about 9:35, but there was a long, SLOW line, so I didn't get our number until 9:50!  (Apparently, making appointments doesn't actually mean anything because the line was full of people without and they didn't even care that I had one)  Eventually our number was called and we were able to submit our applications.  They should be ready by Thursday, which was even sooner than I was expecting!  The way home wasn't entirely smooth either as we hit another small Stau.  We got back to town, I dropped D off at work, then rushed to get L & DJ from school.  L was nearly in tears as she does when I am there too close to 12 & DJ was waiting outside of the school where I told him to wait in case I was late.  (Good thing I said that because he sometimes tries to walk home and I'm not quite ready for that yet...)  So we had a rather stressful morning, but it was another major step that we needed to do.

Then, this afternoon I dropped off several documents that we need notarized.  3 are for our adoption and we also made our wills and need those notarized.  We aren't planning on dying anytime soon, but figured it was better to be prepared so our kids would be provided for in the unlikely chance that something does happen to us while we are away from them during the adoption.  Ah, the joys of being a grown-up....