Starting to look more seriously at adoption now. Unfortunately, we have different ideas, although I suppose we'll come to a consensus as time goes on. I'm pretty much open to anything, but more inclined to want to pursue a domestic adoption, semi-open, which to me, means exchanging letters, pictures, etc., but little in the way of visits. He thinks an international adoption would be better, but for some reason is biased against Russia at this point. No, he's not some militant, "commie" basher. He's definitely not a Republican. I don't know how to describe his politics--anarchist? Although, I don't really know how to describe mine either. We've only grazed the surface at this point of our talks anyway. There's a girl, well, a woman I know, (I still think of her as a girl because she was little when I was a pre-teen) whose grandmother was a pillar of our church, and her mom is still in choir with my mom. I knew the young woman worked for an adoption agency, it turns out that she runs it. I'm going to request some information from her. She has 3 kids and is working on her own Guatemalan adoption. I think Guatemala or other Central American countries may be a good option for us. Hubby has been there before, on a fish collecting trip. He is a fish (mostly cichlid) hobbyist and he and his friends have retrieved some fish that had never been catalogued before. There are a couple of fish now named for one of hubby's friends, as he was the one who financed the trip. They also went to Honduras and Belize. Since hubby is somewhat familiar with culture there, it may make things a bit easier. We're still a bit lost at this point. There's a tri-state adoption fair/convention Nov. 1st. I think that would be a great place to start.