Happy new year
It’s a new year in Ethiopia, so I thought I’d pass along a link to some amazingly beautiful photographs of the country and its people (and some very nice camels as well).
The name
Oscar’s real name was quite simple for me to choose. I’m having a harder time coming up with his sister’s name. Any suggestions?
I’m currently thinking of:
- Hadley Piper (was my favorite until I found out that Palin’s daughter is named Piper, making it likely that Piper will become more popular, and therefore unacceptable to me)
- Olivia (again, too popular, along with Isabelle, which I also love because of the “Izzie” option)
- Schuyler (or Skylar)
- Sabrina (one of my favorite characters in one of my favorite films)
- Parker
- Harper (I don’t know why I like this)
- Morgan
- Sloane
- Peyton
- Ella (love, but again . . .)
- Addis (pronounced Addie)
*** And the winner? Sabrina. I just think it’s pretty, and we can call her Bree (not Brie, like the cheese). I will, of course, be deleting all references to her real name soon and will refer to her with a code name (like Oscar’s), but thanks to all of you who contributed!
Outsourcing
Is it bad that I’m outsourcing getting my dossier authenticated? For those of you who have never adopted, you’re required to put together a dossier full of documents. Each of these documents usually needs to be notarized, then you have to take the notarized documents to the county court house and get them certified and then you take them to the Secretary of State, where they’re authenticated (although my terminology could be incorrect). Last time, for Oscar, this required me to make three trips to the court house and two trips to the Secretary of State. This time, I’d just rather not do it.
I’m going to make the trip to one court house to get 15 of my documents done tomorrow, but I’m outsourcing the rest to the traveling notary who will meet me on Tuesday to get my police clearance. He’ll take the docs that need to go through the process in SF all the way through to the Secretary of State. Does this mean that somehow I’m less engaged in this process, or does it just mean that I’m smarter about protecting my time?
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