Paperchasing

The paperchase is in full swing! We got our dossier packet in the mail on Monday and we've already started gathering the appropriate documents. The dossier includes birth certificates, marriage license, financial standing, letters of recommendation, proof of health and life insurance and a ton of other stuff. We will spend the next few months compiling all of this paperwork (hence the name paperchase) and that packet is what gets sent to Ethiopia's Ministry of Women's Affairs. There's also a complicated process of things being notarized, then certified and then authenticated. I don't fully understand how that works, but I'm trying to remember that we aren't there yet so don't need to worry about it!

In the last two days I've managed to get Cale's birth certificate, our marriage license and a promise from our insurance provider to send us a letter of proof of coverage for us and our adopted child. Cale's written his proof of employment letter and hopes to get it signed and notarized later this week. I need to make a trip down to our court house to get my birth certificate sometime in the next few days. We are praying about who to have write our letters of reference and hope to get that started sometime in the next week or so. There's lots to do, but my goal is to get something at least started every day. We would love to have our dossier ready by August 1, but there is only so much that we can do to make that happen. So we'll do our part and trust that the Lord will work the rest out in His perfect time.

-kate-