We decided to mail our dossier via FedEx, which seems to be the safest and most common dossier-mailing method, but we couldn't find a FedEx store in our town. Which seems incredible to me because we have just about everything else in our town. Why not a FedEx store??? Anyways. Nathan and I looked on-line last night and found that there is a FedEx drop box inside our Staples store along with packaging materials. So I, and a friend (who has to remain nameless for today), went to Staples this morning, only to find that they ONLY have a drop box and no packaging capabilities :-(. Disappointment!!!!!
The nice man in Staples said that we would have to go into Des Moines to send anything FedEx, and he recommended looking for an Office Max because they have a FedEx center inside their store. Well, I had an appointment to meet with an new adoptive mama friend, Reagan, at McDonald's at 11 a.m. and knew that there wasn't time to run into Des Moines before then, so the dossier would have to wait a couple more hours.
We ran a couple errands, met Reagan along with her sweet daughter and ADORABLE little boy Caleb, and then headed into Des Moines. Anyone who knows me should know that I have the world's WORST sense of direction. But, thanks to my loyal TomTom, we found Office Max.
I carefully handed over our dossier envelopes and told the lady to be VERY careful because she was holding the last six months of my life and a good chunk of my future in her hands. Since she was obviously looking at me a little strangely by now, I told her that my husband and I are adopting and that she was holding all the very important paperwork we have been working on. She was nice and laughed at my silliness as I asked her if I could take some pictures!!!!
Then I handed the box back to the nice lady and told her that I was leaving my life in her hands. Be careful with it!!!!!
(It's supposed to arrive at our agency by 10:30 tomorrow morning, so you can guess what I'll be doing all morning!!!!)
