Stahlke Adoption

Documents

Well, I had hoped to blog more often. But the reality of raising five kids is that ten straight days of illness and/or school holidays means that only the basics like dishes, laundry, cooking, and outside jobs get done. And also adoption documents. We heard Tuesday that Ukraine now requires that all dossiers include a copy of your deed or rental agreement. So in the midst of everything else this week, we made two trips to downtown Chicago to get a certified copy of our deed and then get it apostilled.

Adam had a school assignment this week, which I'll include here for you. The given assignment is in italics, followed by his answers. He first spoke his ideas to Jonathan, who then wrote them down for him. Then Adam recopied them in his own handwriting to turn in at school.
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Getting Documents for my Little Brother!

Select something that is difficult.
We want to get our little brother from Ukraine before anybody else gets him because he's our little brother. We have to raise money to get him and get a lot of documents together. This means getting them signed and apostiled downtown. Then we have to mail them to Ukraine.

Why is this a problem?
It is a problem because you have to work hard at it, and then you have to get the sheets that you need from other offices as fast as you can.

How did you handle it?
We handled it by helping our parents and by going downtown to apastile it and mailing the package to a lady in Ukraine. She translates everything into Ukrainian.

What did you learn?
We learned that we have to work as fast as possible. We learned what it means to get some thing apostiled and how hard it was to do it.

Conclusion.
I solved it by finishing it all and the lady is translating it all right now. When we get a call from the lady, we can go to the plane and fly to Ukraine as fast as possible. This is how I solved my problem. By. Adam Stahlke!

posted by Stahlkes @ 9:24 AM