DOSSIER TO CHINA!!!

We've finally made one of the bigs steps. We're DTC.   :) :)

Dossier to China

Since our last post things have been a little crazy.  After my sister agreed to make the drive to Jackson to get our authenticated documents, Hurricane Isaac decided that she really shouldn't do that. Jackson was a major evacuation route and so we weren't even sure that FedEx would manage it.  Since they were our only chance of getting it done, we tried anyway.  Luckily, Tim had the foresight to get extra copies and so we sent the extras via FedEx to the MS secretary of state office with a return FedEx airbill.  When tracking didn't show that it had been picked up yet by 4 the next afternoon (the day Isaac hit) I called the office and explained what we were waiting on.  The lady was very hospitable, as most of us Mississippians are, but she didn't give me much hope as her quote was "the lady that normally does this isn't in but I'll try!"   

It was apparently done correctly; woot!  That still left us missing our agency's Friday dossier to China day and so we were looking at losing a full week.  One of the other mothers on BAAS's fb group happened to mention that her docs were being picked up by a courier and sent to BAAS that day.  I hadn't realized that was an option. ;  BAAS needs the originals and a set of plain copies and our plan had been to have the courier send them to us to copy and forward.  We sent XQ (our BAAS agent) an email and she happily agreed to make the copies there as to save a few days.  

We are headed to Fiji to celebrate!  (Ok, not really; we actually already had our 25th wedding anniversary trip planned--6 months early so as not to interfere with Gotcha day).  Hopefully we will be LID when we get back and on our way to a speedy LOA.  😄