Reason May Reign...

fingers crossed.

New judge in Murmansk, purportedly another woman, has reviewed my paperwork and asked for a few additional documents that need to be submitted by July 16 for what hopefully will be a final review. Her requests seem level-headed, not driven by the suspicion exhibited by the prior judge who doubted that my accountant was really an accountant, that the town assessor was really an assessor, that my financial statements were bona fide financial statements.

I can and will do as the new judge asks, get documents signed and notarized by next Tuesday, then apostilled by the Secretary of State, then translated into Russian and--with the help of my amazing Mom, my adoption agency, almost every department at Town Hall, and ever-reliable FedEx--into her hands by the 16th. And pray that reasonableness reigns...