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My parents are on their way home from watching my grand kids in France. Check out my son in laws online diary of their trip. As they prepare to leave, our family here did some preparation to go to France this summer. Today was passport day. Of course, we waited till the last possible minute to start the process so every little delay is enough to give you a heart attack. One of the boys needed a picture ID. We went to the DMV to get the card and didn't have all the right paperwork. You can't have all the right paperwork the first time....it's impossible. Our second try this morning we got it right, he got the ID and all seven of us left for Maryland to the Passport Agency. Everything was running smoothly (if you don't count the kids being loud and ridiculous and that the new ID card wasn't accepted because it had to be issued over a year ago) till we got to Steven and Ashley's passport application. Apparently you're not allowed to take foster children out of the country without a ton of more paperwork. Now these aren't cute babies we were stealing away to Poland or something, but teenagers who I'm sure we'll wish we had left behind on more then one occasion during our trip. We were informed that we had to go back to West Virginia and get a State Official to give us permission to take them and have it notarized. We pick that up tomorrow and back to Maryland to finish. And then you have to pay over $90 a piece for each one on top of all the aggravation. Then the only worry will be the postal system delivering the passports back to us safely and on time. Who's worrying?