Please see my book project When Rain Hurts

I have added new chapters and journal entries.  

When Rain Hurts is the story of how our Russian adopted son Peter came into our lives, the series of events that led us there, and my successful journey toward loving him, while accepting and adjusting to the fact
that I can’t substantially heal him.  Peter suffers from Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome, Mild Autism, Seizures, BiPolar Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder and suspected Mitochondrial Disease.
 He is also, on most days, our beautiful and loving boy.

I undertook this project because I felt demoralized after reading the plethora of adoption- and autism-related books on the market.  Most if not all portray a family who

struggles with their child’s difficulty at first, but who ultimately learn to
embrace the problem and become enriched because of it.  Reading these
accounts made me feel inadequate, as a mother and as a human being.  I
love my child, fiercely in fact, but hate the disabilities that plague his
future and pepper our daily lives with genuine chaos.  I want my child to
be whole.  This project seeks to explore these feelings.  Adoption
isn’t always easy and adopting an alcohol exposed child carries with it
inherent booby traps that simply cannot be overcome by love, faith, medication
or any other kind of intervention.  I know because I’ve tried.

Please see latest journal entries (starting 3/18) - after we made a formal request that the school psychologist be removed as our son's counselor (because of a number of unrelenting, constant improprieties), she called CPS and alleged "excessive corporal punishment" because we use chores as a consequence with our son.  The charges are being dismissed, of course, but how can this person use this sacred right/obligation (mandatory reporting) as a retaliatory weapon?  Unbelievable . . .