Ten Days

Our ten day wait is over. It is a ten days I felt at the beginning would be long in passing but it has been time enjoyed and well spent.

On our side we and the girls have been evaluating and getting to know one another. On the paperwork side it looks like it is needed as they hand carry documents back and forth between Zaporosoa and the capital Keive. I know we had to cancel our trip to the orphanage yesterday to spend an hour in a notaries office obsessing over Susan and I's marriage license. Would the State issued, notarized, True and Exact, Apostiled copy do? Or did we have to go back and get the original. Please don't be alarmed or afraid; the sun did rise this morning. We ended up driving back to the flat where Susan had more than thoughtfully brought our original. While we were gone it was decided to accept the “shaky” one we had supplied.

This document work though grinding exceeding fine is moving along.

This is a big day. It will be the day we start early and pick the girls up to go apply for new records. After all our team's background efforts of filing applications for applications we will file for international passports and new birth certificates with Susan and I as their legal Mom and Dad. They will be excused from school to go to the vital records office and complete paperwork and passport applications so they can make the next application with US Immigration. I can't tell the number of people; like the young server when we ordered pizza at the bowling alley, who spotting us as Americans, gush, “OH! This is my dream! To move to America! I feel like Paul with his Roman citizenship in the New Testament. I was born with this but for others, our two girls included, it is bought with a high price. Citizenship!