The Calm Continues

The calm continues as the week comes to a close. Heidi and Jerry, her brother, had Maxim at the ID Card section at Ft. Myer today and Jerry got a good feel for a full-scale (or Maximum) Meltdown. Otherwise the army bureaucracy kept us jumping. The folks from the Church covered us in the morning so we could be three places at once.

We continue to find our way around. We are pulling together support and resources as fast as we can. Most recently I stumbled across the website of the Families for Russian Ukrainian Adoption (FRUA): the DC Chapter has 250 families.

http://www.frua.org/

Heidi had arranged for an appointment with Dr. Ronald S. Federici. He came highly recommended, and as it turns out is a national expert on foreign adoption specializing in the former Soviet states, who has been on Nightline, 20/20 and Oprah. He agreed to see Christina as the first egg in our basket to boil. She is due for a 7-hour intake in March or earlier if a hole opens up in his schedule. We met for an hour today and it was very revealing.

He gave us a copy of his current resource, I've ordered some more copies on Amazon today, so it is available:

Help for the Hopeless Child: A Guide for Families (With Special Discussion for Assessing and Treating the Post-Institutionalized Child), Second Edition (Paperback) by Ronald S. Federici (Author) "Hopeless" goes hand in hand with such descriptions as: desperate, discouraged, incurable and irreparable..." 

http://www.drfederici.com/ is his website. He has some very good articles and other resources posted.

The kids are home and diner is simering.

Love to all,

Erik