Dossier is on it's way!

For those who would like to promounce that word (I'm guessing it's French), the best phonetics I can do is Daus..eeee..A (long a) or DOS (like computer DOS system) long E and then long A like Hay. Whatever... anyways, that sucker is now on it's way to our agency. We had trouble with one final paper, police clearance, because a famous/infamous person was hanging out in our jail and where there are famous people, there are paparazzi. They bug. So today, there was NO ONE at the jail so off we went and a nice lady did not charge us full price (half) for the papers we needed to complete our dossier.

This is very exciting for us. Now it is translated and in a few months we will add our USCIS (immigration) paperwork and we are done until referral. There is a possibilty that a few notary commissions may expire but not on things that are hard to re-do, like color passport copies. The soonest the commission expires is July of 2009 so we choose to wait and see instead of re-do. Call it Hope! Hey, it happened for Pandora right? She brought hope out of the box too.

Also my husband brought home a Chinese New Year pin from his work. I thought it said Rat... he thought it said Happy New Year. It says Luck! Both wrong! Hey and the lucky thing this year is to buy 3 Chinese coins tied together. Even if it is less expensive to buy three coins and put them on the string... that won't work. They are only lucky if you buy them all tied together with a string! In the year ahead, the Rat is a symbol of hope, cleverness and illumination. Happy New Year!