Merry Christmas!  I spent the 24th, calling around and found a notary who was willing to drive to DSHS this week or early next week to notarize our letters. Turns out, that Santa came through afterall!  Our letters were notarized and sent off in the mail on the 23rd!  Whoo hooo!  They are now enroute to our placing agency, who will then mail them back to us and we can finally get the rest of our dossier apostilled!  What an awesome Christmas present!  How wonderful it is to feel the gears of this giant adoption machine churning once again.  Progress is a beautiful thing!