Boomerang!

Below is an email from our agency social worker.

Dear Natalie,

I spoke with Marilena today and she got your package. Everything is o.k except for the birth certificates! Not your fault! The Guatemala consulate wrote down the name of the secretary of state incorrectly! Which means, the birth certificates need to be re-authenticated. Yuck--I know!

Marilena is going to send these back to you via fed ex. You must take them to the consulate again. As mentioned, it was their mistake they wrote in the name on the secretary of state certificate incorrectly.

Sorry this had to happen, thing like this do happen--it is part of the process, I suppose.

Aaah! The bliss of bureaucracy returns. I guess it is "part of the process" but every part of the process? It seems pretty improbable, yet all things are possible. Oh well, time to power on to round two.

It looks like the night shift staff at our local Kinko's has a counterpart at the Guatemalan consulate. Maybe that is who they are chatting with on their cell phones while they are "working".

This experience reminds me of a favorite children's book. My mom always read The Little Engine That Could to me when I was little. The line that comes to mind is "I think I can, I think I can", That is our mantra as we chug up the hill to Alexander.