The Dossier Saga!!!

I was beginning to think we were not going to be our dossier together! On Tuesday, we went to the doctor and got our medical forms filled out.  They had a notary in the office, so she notarized it.  Sounds easy, right?  The next day, I took all my beautifully notarized documents to the Rutherford County Clerk's office, because Tennessee required a notary certification on any document they apostille.  Well, at the office they were looking up all the notary information and we quickly discovered that the notary from the doctor's office was a Know County notary.  For those of you that don't know, Know County is Knoxville and it's about 4 to 5 hours from Murfreesboro. Rutherford County won't certify a notary out of county...so I had two choices: Overnight the medicals to Knox County clerk and pray they will overnight it back. Or go back to the doctor's office and arrange for another notary to come that day and notarize new medical forms.  We choose the latter.  The nice girl in the doctor's office had a friend who was a notary and she agreed to come do it later that day for free!! I was happy...this was working out.  I ran my errands and got the other notary certifications I needed.  Jeff picked up the newly notarized medicals.  When I got home, I looked at the medicals to ensure everything was great. Well..you guessed it..everything was NOT great.  For some strange reason, the notary signed the document TWO different ways.  Once with her First name, middle initial and last name and the other with her initials.  Well, I KNEW that I would not be able to get the notary certification, because they compare the notary's signature to the signature in the book. If she signed it two different ways they were not going to match!  I almost cried!  Sooooooo.........today Jeff ( I had to go to a training for work) called the doctor's office and arranged a time for a notary I called and hired the last night to come and notarized a THIRD copy of the medicals.  Then he took them to get the certification and off to Nashville for the apostille on all the documents.  He called me 10 minutes ago to tell me that our dossier is in a Fed Ex envelope to be sent Priority Overnight to our social worker (Jana).  Thank you Jesus!!!  I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO relieved to have it shipped off.  It will get to Jana by 10 am tomorrow and she will scan copies of every document to Sasha (our facilitator).  He will translate them and she is going to DHL the document to him tomorrow.  Sooo...as long as nothing happens to Fed Ex or DHL, our dossier should be in Sasha's hands in time to submit our dossier on June 30th.   Please pray for our dossier to be delivered and submitted with no more complications!  I am ESTATIC to be done with this part of the process.   Oh yeah..we had a minor issue with our homeowner's insurance notary also, but that was easily fixed! Our homeowner's insurance company was right across the street from the county clerk so he walked over with a new document and we re-notarized it and got the certification.  Woo.. I am beat!  Now I can relax!  At least for a brief moment...then off to more fundraising.  Two catering jobs this weekend.