What are your plans now?

A private adoption means using an adoption attorney as opposed to an agency. As I said domestic is very new to me- I am still learning the terminology. Our dossier is still in Russia - my second HS had just arrived when the ban came down. We are pursuing both routes. I never considered domestic adoption before as I felt it could all fall apart at the last minute - but thats exactly what happened in Russia. We have no children and in our early 40's so we feel that we have to keep moving forward.