A Little Bit Longer to the Finish Line

The good news: our documents all arriving this a.m. from the Secretary of State!!

email from my dad this a.m. - who signed for the package!

The not-so-good news: one document - my birth certificate - was not authenticated. They said it needs to be certified first. [For the record, before I sent all these documents, I double-checked with the county clerk in the county of my birth about my birth certificate being a "certified copy". They said it was, and that I would not need it county certified, since it already was.] Fooey.

HOWEVER.

We have an amazing family friend who is a fantastic courier, and she is coming to the rescue! She hopped right in her car this morning and is zooming straight to the county clerk's office to have my birth certificate county certified and back to us in record time! [We all agree on a regular basis that we do not know WHAT we would do without her!] I believe more and more in the saying, "it takes a village".

SO.

This one piece of paper needs to be overnighted back to the Secretary of State and then overnighted back to us so we can overnight all these papers to our agency and BE.DONE.!!

I watched a friend run a marathon this fall, and as another friend and I were walking to the finish-line afterward to find her, we noticed that they had put the finish line AROUND A CORNER! How cruel! Those poor runners were running forever and ever without a visual to focus on for the finish. I feel like we are running and running, knowing we've got to be close to the finish line, waiting to round that corner.

Almost there...

Almost there...

Thankful for people in our lives that come in when we need it most and help propel us to the finish! And thankful for a dad who sees a dilemma and comes up with a solution before I even have time to panic!

Happy Monday friends! :)