Need help contacting Mark Seibel/ genral thoughts

To all my "waiting families" who have been working with Mark Seibel at the U.S. Embassy here in Moscow:

I got a call from Alex late last night (around 10:45 our time) saying Mark Seibel has been trying to get ahold of us, and that he has "important" & urgent information concerning our next court appearance. I later learned from our friend Irina he had contacted them too. Any of you who can, please try and contact Mark - via phone and/or email, asking him to continue to try and call us, or at the very least, email us. We had a very windy day yesterday, I think it affected the phone lines (as the weather always does here!) We will try him again today of course, with the time difference from here to Moscow however, we won't be able to attempt to do this till midday. We were told to call him at this number: 495-728-3567. When we call, it says the number is not in service. We have also tried the same number, but ending in 5567, it rings, and rings, and rings. I believe this second number is the one we have used in the past so, not sure what's up. ALSO, please tell Mark that during the day, if we do not answer, that he can try Irina's cell phone number: 3951-527-627 We will be running around with her all day, so he can likely get us that way.


We are leaving here by 8:00 am our time to do Skip's medicals. Then after lunch we will return to finish ours. We have one more blood test. Pray we can visit Harry again today. I fear he thinks we have again abandoned him, and pray that the anger I have for this cold, cold, emotionless judge is replaced with only positive thoughts. I don't want to dwell on the negative, I need to remain positive!

In the middle of my interrogation by the judge & prosecuter the other day, following about 20 questions having to do with legal matters, the judge suddenly, and without the slightest bit of facial expression change, asked me what emotions I have when I visit Harry. Anyone who has been through this knows we are warned NEVER to show emotion as it is perceived as a sign of weakness before the court. I felt trapped. Like there was no proper way to answer. If I, for one second, let my guard down, and spoke from my heart, it would seal my fate. On the other hand, failing to answer te judge would only result in the same question, asked in a slightly different manner, as is the way she operates. I didn't cross that line, and show her how my heart breaks - I simply responded that I cannot put in words how much love I feel for this child...

I know this line of questioning is intentional, and it almost worked...PLEASE pray I can continue to remain strong! It's the only line of defense we have right now!

THANK YOU!