One Step Closer

Today was a long, hard, exhausting day. Very little got done in my classroom because I spent 90% of the day working on long range planning. I didn't leave the school until 4:45, which is late for me. By the time I pulled up to the mailboxes down the street from our house, I was hot (probably because it was 106+ outside), I was tired, and I was hungry (what's new?!?). And I may or may not have been a little grouchy. That's up to you to decide.

Back to the mail . . . I went to pull the mail out, thinking that it was most likely all junk, when I saw this on one of the envelopes . . .

And then I danced a little jig. Not really, but it sounds good. You people have no idea how happy I was to see that little stamp staring up at me from the outside of that beautiful envelope. Actually some of you probably do. It made my day . . . no, I take that back . . . it made my week. Inside that envelope was the approval notice from the National Benefits Center. It might as well have been pure gold in my opinion. It was the last piece of paper we needed to complete our dossier. Now we can get everything notarized and apostilled and sent off to our agency. I can see the light at the end of the paperwork tunnel, and I couldn't be more thrilled.