A Red Thread Moment

Today, as I mentioned in the previous post, we went to a gathering of families with children from China today. The group in our area is really growing. The last time we were able to attend was in June. (The last gathering was in August, about a week after Katherine was born, so we didn't make that one.) We were excited to see several more little girls around Mary Joyce's age this time. Chet started talking with a man (David) who was new to the group, and we found out that their younger daughter was from Jiangxi province (same as Mary Joyce) and that her birthday was in December 2005. That was already neat enough. (With our friends in Georgia, most of our girls are from Jiangxi, but at the last gathering down here, Mary Joyce and one other girl were the only two from that province.) Anyway, I started talking to Shelley, David's wife, and she asked what SWI Mary Joyce was from. I told her that Mary Joyce was from Tonggu. (Keep in mind that Tonggu is a smaller SWI.) She got a surprised look on her face and told me that Lili, their daughter, was also from Tonggu. It turns out that we are on the SWI Yahoo group together, and had communicated some before. I even had followed their website when they went to China to adopt Lili. Also, when we adopted, neither of us lived down here. We were in Georgia, and they were in Tennessee, so we would never have expected to meet in Florida. On top of all of this, Mary Joyce and Lili played extremely well together. Watching them, we really feel like they have been around each other before. It was a pretty remarkable thing to watch. Unfortunately, I don't have a good picture of the two of them together, but Shelley is supposed to send me one. I'll share it when she sends it.