Checking Things Off My List

Today I started on the second part of the dossier. Thank goodness the person in my HR department is so nice. I believe this is the third time that she has had to write a letter to verify my employment. I was able to collect 4 copies this morning and I hope to send then out by the end of the week for the apostilles. I do not want to get caught in the same situation where I am paying 20 dollars for an apostille instead of just 5 dollars like last time.

This afternoon I made my rounds at 2 of the local banks in the search for new money. I need clean, crisp, nonmarked, new bills. I honestly had hoped that I would be able to give Gerard's mother this job but they decided to go on vacation and I did not have the heart to ask her to do this before she left. Hopefully, the bank's shipment for Monday will have some new money in it. I should know one way or another by Friday. I have about 1/4 of what I wanted to take in good money collected so far. I do not think this will be as much of a problem as I first thought.

Tomorrow I will go to the tax office because I will need an updated document stating that I own my house, well at least me and the bank own this house. The tax assessor is really a nice man. I know that sounds crazy but he was so helpful last year when I needed this document.

This evening I went to T@rget to get some pictures printed for the baby book that I will leave with my little one. Everyone tells me that I am so hard to buy for. In a lot of ways I am like a toddler with the "I do it myself" syndrome. I guess that is why I am so hard to buy gifts for. For me it was a very hard decision to go ahead and register but alas I did.

I am still waiting on my travel dates and trying my best not to worry. I had hoped to hear something this week. I am holding out because the week is not over yet. I think I will call tomorrow afternoon if I remember (Oh who are we kidding I will remember).

Wow I did not think that I had done much today for the adoption but once I write it out I realized that I was very productive. If only every day was this productive.