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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Off it goes!

Finally, our dossier is on it's way to California!  Today I finally got to go pick up our home study documents from the agency to a nice tune of $275.  Don't even get me started on this.  They have a policy that if they have to do any additional documents after the update they charge $25 a page.  I should of asked for a discount since they made me wait over a week for them, but oh well. 

Off to Topeka then, where I then spent another $435 on apostilles.  Yikes!  That one hurt.  Not to mention the 8 that I had from Missouri.  64 documents in all.  So then off to FedEx I go.  Now I I don't hardly EVER ship anything, and usually if I do I use snail mail.  So when he asked me if I wanted Morning overnight delivery or afternoon overnight delivery I figured there couldn't be THAT big of a price difference.  Needless to say when he told me my total, I about had a cow, $75 to ship.  My bad, next time I will choose afternoon delivery!  I am just glad it is finally out of our hands and in the hands of our agency now.  My stack of documents were so thick I couldn't use an envelope, I had to use a box, which upped the price a little there also!

Have a great day everyone.

Denise

6 comments:

  1. Woo hoo! So glad you have that wrapped up. Now it's a waiting game, right?

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  2. Oh, Denise!! Praying that your little one is in your arms very soon. Man! All the hoops and red tape! God bless you, girl! :)

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  3. If you haven't already sign up for a FedEx account, it's free. It saves money eventually, and the shipping never stops.

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  4. hi denise, sounds like you've been working very, very hard on all this. i really hope and pray that it comes together very, very soon. the reward will be oh so sweet, and know that's what keeps you going!

    ~anna peterson

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  5. typo: i meant i know that's what keeps you going!

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  6. I used the same agency, they will be super fast and in no time you will find yourself in Russia playing with your child.

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