Paperwork Is Kind of Like A Game Of Ping-Pong. At Midnight. When You Have The Flu.

... Except that O would tightly say that the correct terminology is "Table Tennis".

Doesn't matter. Right now it's all the same- you think you get one thing crossed off the checklist, and just as you are exhaling with the satisfaction of being one more step ahead than you were yesterday, poof! The document disappears.

After Friday's ordeal of getting somebody to agree to have the Stupid House Letter done so I could pick it up, today I get a phone call from the borough telling me there is no way they are going to type up and sign anything, because they consider it legal quicksand. So they have a lawyer down at the main City Hall looking in to it, and will get back to me "whenever they can". In this city, that means the kid will probably be blowing out 18 candles on her birthday cake before we get any answers or help.

So I have called our adoption agency to have them contact the borough to explain the situation and to come up with a solution. O says we're certainly paying them enough money- let them figure something out. He says I'm stressed out enough trying to get all this other stuff done. Which is true. We still need duplicate copies of police and interpol background checks (again), our marriage certificates (again) and more doctor's visits with medical reports stating we are in good health for the Ukrainian government. Again. All of this stuff was submitted 6 months ago for social services, but of course since our registration date in Kiev is July 29th 2010 it makes all of the documents too old to use. They have to be issued within 6 months of your registration date. Hence the doublemint twins for everything we've already done, and the matching bill to prove it.