Finally!

Got down to our Probate Court today and filed the necessary paperwork to readopt the kids. WooooHoooooo!!!!!!!

For those who haven't been crazy enough to go through this process, if your child enters the country on an IR-3 visa, you don't need to go through the readoption process, but most will still go through the hoops for changing a name and getting a birth certificate. If your child enters on an IR-4 visa (like most Ethiopian children do), then you must readopt in your state. County probate courts set the rules for doing this, and some are easy and some are a pain in the patooty. Even though it has taken me the better part of a year to get this done, I have discovered that our county is pretty easy. (It would be nice if they would put all of the forms online like they do for everything else that they handle, but that would just make sense.) Mainly, it has just been a pain to have to park downtown, get the papers, get them filled out, and then find the time to get back downtown during their hours to get them filed.

I finally did that today, and got a date for our hearing: December 5th. Wish us luck!

Oh, and I voted today.
:)