FINALLY!!!!!

If you hear me screaming and yelling all the way over there don't be worried. It's just me screaming and yelling out of excitement that we FINALLY have paperwork we have been waiting on for a looooong time. It really seems like it has been a never ending task. Fernando, Katy and Reina came here to live in Oct. 2006 and later Doris in May 2008 without birth certificates. They came from a very poor family. Each child with different dads and a mother who is slightly mentally retarded. Their mother was no even sure of each child's complete name more less how old they were.  IHNFA (children's services) promised they would work on them and they would get them to us ASAP. I thought no big deal. 

Well before we knew it a years had passed by and still no birth certificates. When we started getting the kids registered for school we had to have their birth certificates. Well small problem we had none. We worked with the lawyer from IHNFA and she got us a letter stating that the birth certificates were in progress. The school began to doubt we were really working on them as we had to get a new letter every year stating they were working on the birth certificates. This year we were told the school system was now all computerized and each child had to have their ID number which is on their birth certificate. If we could not present their ID numbers then it was a lost year and they would have to repeat the grade until we got the ID numbers for them. 

There have been phone calls upon phone calls and visits to IHNFA, forsenic office exams, and long trips to the judges office in Danli. 

Although today April 10th, 2013 we finally have the kids birth certificates!!! I can't tell you how good to feels to finally have them. It seems to good to be true. 

A huge thanks to Dorian and our lawyer Oscar who went all the way to Danli to get them today!!!