Faith to Move a Mountain

In November of 2011, I started this blog as a sort of journal to chronicle the events of our son Quinton's adoption. Quinton is a little boy who was born with an extra special something. Quinton has down syndrome and was given up at birth by his parents because he has down syndrome. His birth parents must not have had any idea what a blessing he would be or I am sure they would not have given him up. Unfortunately in Eastern Europe (Quinton is from Ukraine) people with disabilities are not accepted in society and at the age of 4-6, they are sent to adult mental institutions where most of them die :( Although it breaks my heart that his parents have missed out on such a joyful little boy, God has used this unfortunate situation to bless us with a gift greater than I could have ever imagined: the gift of our first child. If you ever considered adoption-do it! Don't let money deter you. God provided over $20,000 for us to adopt Quinton. We were not fully funded until 50 minutes before we boarded our plane to Ukraine. If you have never considered adoption, go back to the beginning of this blog and read. You will see what a blessing adoption really is. Many people tell us that we are angels for rescuing Quinton, but the honest truth is this: Quinton has given me far more that I will ever be able to give him. He is my little miracle, my silly bug, my baby boy, my love. HE IS MY LIFE!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Who says 3rd time's a charm?

While we are anxiously awaiting our final copy of our homestudy, we went ahead and began working on our first part of our dossier. Each page has to be notarized and then sent off to Raleigh to be apostilled (@ $10 per page!). Sounds easy, right? Go to the bank and have the papers notarized...no big deal. Well, seeing as how my husband and I work opposite shifts and the notary has to witness both of us sign the papers, it is much easier said than done.

First attempt: Tuesday-snow day and the perfect chance to get our documents notarized before Brian leaves for work except that the snow turned to ice and everywhere is closed :(

Second attempt: Wednesday-Brian's day off. I leave after work (teacher workday) to meet Brian and go get the papers notarized. I get home only to realize that I have left the folder at work!

Third Attempt: Thursday-Brian's last day off until the next Wednesday. I bring the folder of papers home and we go to a bank in Stanly county where we already know and like the competent notary. She sits down to notarize and realizes that our official papers say Cabarrus county on them and she is a Stanly county notary! By this time it is 4:30 so we hightail it to a bank in Concord. There are very specific guidelines to notarizing international documents and this man clearly could not get it right. It is probably a good thing we ran into problems with there not being enough room for his notary stamp without overlapping any writing (a big no-no which will get your documents rejected!). Feeling very defeated and out of time, we went home. Brian fixed the margins on the documents to allow plenty of space for the stamp so we would be ready to go NEXT WEDNESDAY! I was so bummed since we are racing against this vote. (More on that later-if I remember LOL. For now, just know the vote could lengthen the adoption and has been postponed...again). Note: third time NOT a charm!

Fourth Attempt: Friday-We had a snowday. School was closed and Brian does not have to go in to work until 2:45. So this time we know that we need to go to Cabarrus county and we know not to go back to the bank with the kind notary who could not get it right-bless him for trying, though. We go to another bank and successfully get our documents notarized...finally! The lady was so sweet and genuinely interested in our story. Whoever said 3rd time's a charm was wrong. For us the 4th time was a charm and despite the fact that I have to work the next 2 Saturdays to make up for all the snow days, I am so blessed that God gifted us those days so that we could get things done. Now we are yet another step closer to bringing Quinton home :)
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  1. LeahJanuary 17, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    whew, I can only imagine what that must be like! Glad to hear you got it all turned in though. Praying for the rest of the process & the vote.

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