It had to be fate!

It was Jay's birthday, October 23, 2004 and we decided to run up to the store without the kids. This is something that doesn't happen often in our house! So after looking around a bit we got in line to pay for our purchases, when we over heard the people in line in front of us on their cell phone. The woman was on the phone talking about getting something to eat and turned to the younger man with her and asked if he would like to go get Chinese food. The man agreed that sounded like a good idea.After they left Jay and I looked at each other and, as always, Jay read my mind... Chinese food sounded great to us also, we had no kids with us and it was Jay's birthday so let's stay gone from home for just a bit longer and spend some "us" time that day. After paying for our stuff we headed out to the car and on to Chinese food.Now you have to understand the area we live in, there is a Chinese restaurant on every corner and in every strip shopping center but we have our favorite that is about 7 miles in the opposite direction of home from the store we were shopping in. AND it was Jay's birthday!! So we headed out to this restaurant passing about seven or eight other Chinese restaurants on the way. In fact I would say there are about thirty Chinese restaurants with in a 7 mile radius of the store we were shopping in.When we got to the restaurant we were seated in a booth with me facing the door and Jay facing me. It was still early before dinner hours and there were not a lot of people in the restaurant. One family caught my attention. It was two white woman that looked like sisters sitting with an Asian baby in a highchair. I was watching the baby and making comments to Jay about how the baby must be adopted. And then I asked him if he had heard about the babies in China. Odd for Jay not to know something, as his brain is a sponge and not much gets past him, but he didn't know about the government and the one child per family law. As we began to talk about this, the door to the restaurant opened up, and in walks the man and woman that were in line in front of us at the store we had just left. They came in and went to sit with the two women and the baby! I could not believe with all the restaurants in this area that they walked into this one. It was fate! We were being lead that day!!Throughout our conversation at dinner Jay told me to do some research on adopting and the baby girls in China. Believe me I didn't have to be told twice.Within two weeks we were attending a workshop on adoption at the Orlando Library, still in the "just looking and learning" phase of our life changing journey. But within an hour we had met a handful of parents that had taken this path along with their beautiful little girls, we listened to the stories and got the information from the spokeswoman and Jay was signing us up!Our fortune cookies that day in the restaurant read Jay's: All eyes will soon be on you!Ginnie's: What you seek is closer to you than you realize.