- WE'RE ALMOST FINISHED! -

when we adopted kiara, we chose to readopt her in the states for a US birth certificate - we contacted an attorney & he said he'd do her readoption for $600 - we said alright & we'd send him the $ when we got it - we then decided to do it 'one more time' so we called him & let him know that we'd just wait & when karleigh came home, we'd do them both at once & he said fine, but that he'd do them both for $600 since he loved adoptive families & that it really wouldn't be much more work - we said, "praise the lord" & was gathering the $ - we then decided to do it 'one more time', so i once again called the attorney & shared what we were doing & that we wanted to wait until our last was home & then we'd do them all 3 together - once again he stated that he'd rather do that too & by doing all 3 at once, it wasn't going to be any more work for him & that he'd do them all 3 for $400 - i said, "$400?, it was $600 & we've added 1, how can it go down?" - he said, "you see, i'm adopted & i love adoptive families & i just want to do this for all you're doing" - well, with that praise the lord, we felt so blessed - we'd the girls all 3 readopted (i think spike was wanting to hurry & send him the $$ as by waiting we kept adding more children & he was a bit fearful - hehe) - we then had to have kiara's name correct due to someone in haiti putting JR. at the end of her name (as in a mans name) on her greencard - it hadn't messed us up to this point, but we didn't want that on all her 'new documents' - we did all the necessary INS paperwork, turned it in, got her passport photos (which INS required) & we waited (we were getting good at that after 3 international haiti adoptions)

we recieved all her correct paperwork about a week or so ago, so now everything's finished & we're going to be applying for the girls' passports very soon in their new names, etc. - we're taking ruby back to haiti on our next trip, then the following trip, we'll take kiara & the 3rd trip, we'll take karleigh

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this photo's of me, as we began filling out paperwork for our first dossier in february '02 & from then till now's been 5.5 years of paperwork & i'm happy to report, we're almost finished!! [hugs!]