Calling all Moscow and Boise ID Readers!

Ok guys – we know you are out there! Many of you have chimed on and signed our guestbook (thanks by the way, we love reading your notes you leave for us there!) that you enjoy reading the updates.

We need a Moscow (or Pullman) person and a Boise area person, or better yet, someone flying/driving to Boise this Wednesday.

If you are regular reader of our online journal, you recall that we have “paperwork problems”. We think we are making progress in processing this important paperwork but have some Moscow-based and Boise-based running around that needs to happen. We thought of contacting many of you individually, but know everyone is busy and don’t know what everyone’s summer schedules are this week. If you have time this week for doing some running around, please contact us ASAP!

In general, this is what will need to happen. We should be receiving in our mail, at our house in Moscow, two letters (the addendums to our homestudy). They should be mailed first thing Monday morning from Caldwell up to Moscow, therefore arriving Tuesday afternoon (we’re guessing). So, the Moscow person would need to pick those letters up and get them notarized that same day. Steve Busch at Moscow Title has been extremely helpful in getting all of our items notarized up till now. While the Moscow person is waiting for the mail to arrive, they would need to go to Kinkos, pick up a FedEx envelope and international airbill and address it (we will direct you exactly how to do that). They will also have to get a money order for $20 made out to the Secretary of State (we’ll pay you back when we get home!). And finally, get an envelope ready to mail the notarized letters and FedEx envelope to Boise Secretary of State office.

This is where a Boise person comes into play. At best, we would have someone able to personally bring the notarized letters into the Idaho Secretary of State’s office Wednesday AM. The letters need to have an “apostille” attached to them, and they process walk-in paperwork when you are there. (An “apostille” is basically like a state-level notary – it is something required by international countries.) If no one contacts us about flying or driving to Boise, with time to spend going to the Secretary of State’s office, then we will just have to use the mail….

So, if that is indeed the case, the Moscow person will mail everything to the Secretary of State’s office, and your work is done!

So, in a nutshell, that is it. It shouldn’t take too long, but it will involve some running around, and needs to for sure be done immediately when the letters arrive. If the letters are getting mailed back down to Boise (instead of hand carried), they need to go out in Tuesday afternoon’s mail.

We are trusting in the Internet to bring forth a wonderful volunteer for us (or two!). If you want to help, but can’t dedicate your Tuesday afternoon to doing so, we completely understand. We trust that someone out there can. But, if you can do this, please email me directly, and immediately, at marblefamily@idahovandals.com. I am writing this journal entry at 3:40 PM, Sunday afternoon in Odessa. It is 5:40 AM Sunday morning in Moscow, and 6:40 AM in Boise. As soon as I get a volunteer to help us out, I will post a new journal entry indicating as such.

Thank you so much for your help! With love, thanks and a lot of hope we’ll hearing from someone soon,

Kristen and John

P.S. Not to issue any sort of bribe (!!), but anyone who helps will be the kids' honorary Godparents!!!