“Every
great trip should begin with a series of minor catastrophes.”
--Christine Gilbert,
AlmostFearless.com
Well
if that ain’t the truth. Last night my baby projectile vomited all over me, not
once but twice. This morning I was
making breakfast, put my bagel in the toaster and ran to the living room for
something and came back and heard water boiling. Did I hit the switch on the
kettle? No, that’s the sound of my bagel in flames. On a whim I decided that I must
take a trip abroad before baby #2 is born. I have a streak of leaving the
country at least once every year since 2002 and I didn’t want to break it. That’s
a completely logical reason for taking a 10 month old to Italy when you’re 7
months pregnant. I saw a sale fare to Milan back in May and impulse purchased a
trip to Italy.
Tickets booked, I dragged my husband down to the post office the following Saturday
morning to apply for my daughter’s passport. Waited 4 hours but finally we
submitted her application, showed our IDs, and paid the fees. I listed our
expected date of travel as August because we are traveling to Maine this month
and if I had her passport then perhaps we could swing into Canada? Who knows.
But clearly that is not happening as I received a letter back from the State
Department, not quite denying her passport but close.
Her
father is not a US citizen and basically his ID was not sufficient to apply for
a passport. So now they want 5 forms of ID from this list they sent us. I sent
in 5 things and hopefully they are sufficient. In the meantime, I am applying
for other passports for her but imagine if we didn’t have that option? Without
a passport you are essentially on house arrest in your own country. And if you’re
wondering what ID we used that wasn’t sufficient, we both showed our driver’s
licenses.
2 comments:
Hi! I was surprise to see that you had written . I have read all your past Blog. Have always enjoyed reading it immensely. Your are a very courageous woman believe it or not. So you are now married and have a daughter and expecting another. I assume this is a totally different relationship. Forgive me if I am Making assumptions. I do admire you for persevering through life . Call it bucket list or dreams , it is always nice to have something we strive or work towards. All the best to you and yours.
thanks for reading and commenting. I have so much to write about but never do but maybe I will now because I am considering a move to Canada!
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