Incremental progress

We are excited to be taking the next big step in the dossier building process as we move from document collection to certification. To make our dossier complete for submission to China we need to have every notarized document "certified" and in Ohio, it has to be done at the county level. This means that anything notarized in Ohio must be sent back to the county clerk of courts where the notary is registered for a letter of certification to be issued. After that, we send it to the Secretary of State for state level certification. We also need to send Julie's birth certificate to Maryland and my Verification of Employment back to California. After that, it goes to the US Department of State for Federal level certification. Good times, huh?

We just sent the Maryland and California documents out and are going to check with Ashland County on the right process for their certification. We've been diligent about the rest of our Ohio documents and using the branch manager at the local Chase branch to notarize our documents so we can send a pile of them to Marion county for certification there. It is exciting to be taking the next step in the process and hope to be done with the paper chase in Sept. What a process!

Ron is on his way to Chicago to take a test only 13 people world wide have passed over the last 2 years so that should be a fun challenge. ;)

The kids all survived their first day of school and Veronica survived her first day in a long time without another play mate. It's quite a change for a 2.5 year old to go from 2 siblings to none for a few hours of the day!

Back to work for Ron. Only a few hours to get stuff done before it'll be time to head to the airport.