We are blessed and honored to have been featured and to have been able to give to other little girls in their names. It is truly more blessed to give than to receive!
On another note, all of our documents are about to expire, so it's time to get busy updating everything. The Russian Federation requires that all documents in our 81-page dossier are current within one year of the signature date at all times in order to be considered valid. It will be exactly one year on April 20th since our first document was signed and notarized (hard to believe it's been a year!). It takes about 10-14 days for our agency to ship the documents to Russia and one to two weeks to have them translated. Therefore, the updated documents have to be submitted to our agency about one month before the previously submitted ones expire.
So in addition to homeschooling Benjamin (which is a full-time job in and of itself), my job this spring will be printing and updating forms, running from here to there to get everything signed and notarized again, getting certifications from the county and apostilles from the state, and making sure we stay in complaince. We will also need to update our home study, which may take from 1 to 2 months to complete depending on how fast the background checks/clearances can be obtained. We will now have been fingerprinted by the FBI twice, something I never thought I'd do! We will begin the home study process later this month to be sure it is completed and submitted on time. Boy, this feels like dejavu ... haven't I done all this before??? I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, but I know that God will give me the strength to get it all done, just as He always does ...
Thanks again for all of your kindness, love and support over this last year since we began this Journey to Hope. And a HUGE thank you to Toys for Tots for showing your support and love for our family!!
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