Today I carted two kids downtown to pick up Asa’s birth certificate. (Or certickaticket as Lydia says.) I don’t know why this is so weird to me. Why don’t they give you the birth certificate when the baby is, you know, BORN?
I don’t need this certificate to hang on the wall or place in a baby book (yikes! baby book! Asa doesn’t have one!)…I got it because we are going on a DISNEY CRUISE in fourteen days! And my lil’ pirate needs it to set sail!
We followed my precious GPS right to the front door of the Vital Records office and walked right in. As I filled out the form I noticed the others in the waiting room—a Muslim family (I could tell by the garb), a redneck family (just calling ’em like I see ’em), a gangsta family (the two year old had a tattoo…well, practically), a hispanic family, a boring white family (mine) and a motorcycle gang family. I kid you not.
Anyway, I filled out the form, handed the cashier/lady/employee $10 andΒ bada bing bada boom, she prints out Asa’s birth certificate.
She prints it?
Like on a printer?
And I had to drive 45 minutes for that?!
I tried to make it up to my patient little girl so we stopped at a park next door. A park with a cop idling in the parking lot, two adult men on the swings and one cross-dressing looking mom/dad on the park bench.
We stayed about ten minutes.
And that was my day. How was yours?
photo by John Carleton
Heather @ Domestic Extraordinaire says
Awww, hon. I am sorry that you had to go down there. I would say to just order it, but do you know how much they charge to send those things? Altho it might have been worth it.
oh amanda says
I was going to order it but it takes 10 business days…exactly how many business days till our cruise! (But oh yeah, of course, I could have done it sooner…he has been alive for 5 months. lol!)
Deanne says
a part of me wants to say “oh no no, lady, mine was weirder!”. but really, i think it’s best that you win this one today! (as I revel in the normalness that is/was my day) π
Candace says
shameless confession of the day: Conner was two years and seven months old before I got his FIRST copy of his birth certificate. And I had to mail off for it, you can’t just go pick up a copy (how nice that would’ve been). So good for you that you did it and Asa is only five months old!
Holly says
Aww that stinks. We don’t get copies here either and it wasnt until recently you didnt have to go to State Vital Records office to get a copy. Luckily now you can go to the health department. Vital Records office is in a strip mall in a not so good neighborhood.
Staci says
What a crazy day! Hope you used the cross dresser as a teachable moment for Lyddie!
The Diaper Diaries says
Where the heck do you live? π
Cathy says
You’re right. Yours was weirder than mine! π
Pat says
That sucks that you had to go all the way downtown for this.. why couldnt they just mail it to you.. that is how I got my daughters.
Pat says
oops I just realized that someone already said that..I really do have mommy memory.
Lisa says
I got married on a Disney Cruise 4 months ago and I have 7 months to go until my next one! PLEASE take lots of pictures! You are going to have a great time. Are you doing the 3 night cruise? Have a SUPER great time!!!
stacey @ tree, root, and twig says
Um, yeah, you totally beat my “hang out at home and watch the rain” day.
Moriah @ Please Pass the Salt says
That’s kind of a pain! They mail them here and it doesn’t even take too long (if you remember to “order” them, that is.)
Wendy says
Funny!
I just ordered copies of the boys’ last week, so I would have it in time for KINDERGARTEN registration. 5 months is nothin’! π
P.S. Thanks for making me glad I ordered it…dh told me I should have just gone downtown to pick it up!
Suz says
Guess what?! Adam and I were there at the same place last week! It was so sad when we left there was a gentleman probably close to our age who was filling out paper work for 2 birth and death certificates for his babies that only lived for 30 minutes after being born. Suddenly my day wasnt so bad after complaining about going down there and how gross that place was…..anywho, have a great weekend!!
Adventures In Babywearing says
Ok that was weird!
Steph
jubilee says
You so win!
Leigh says
heh heh heh… much weirder than my day!
Catie says
Cross-dressed mom/dad. That’s about as ATL as it gets.
Will Blog For Shoes says
Yuck! Here, we fill out the form in the hospital and mail it in… then they mail it to us. But, duh, you already know that ’cause you had Lydia here.
(BTW, I’m still working on Wog’s baby book…only have, like, 2 pages done!)