red tape...........

Holy moly! The things you have to go through to get a passport these days!!!! It's crazy. Tim and I already have our passports, but we have needed to get one for Joe for a long time now. So we took some time this morning and went to the post office to complete the paperwork. Oy! It's actually a lot like what we had to go through with the adoption. We had to get signatures and notaries for all sorts of stuff since Joseph is adopted. No problem. We did that. But then we had to work very hard to convince the clerk that in fact the documents that we were showing as proof of citizenship and guardianship were actually our documents and the ones that the State Department wants to see. Well....2 trips, a tank of gas, and $180 later the application was finally mailed off to Washington. I'm just glad it's over and we are hoping that we get it without anymore problems. We'll see........