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Okay, I shouldn’t gloat but as a Cardinals fan I couldn’t just ignore it now, could I? 
Okay, so what does baseball have to do with adopting Xia Mei, or for that matter Hua Mei too? Well, back in 2004, I somehow managed to get tickets for the World Series. Being a huge Cardinals fan, it was a dream come true.
Watching the Cards play game 3 in St Louis couldn’t get any better. So, Karen and I flew down to St Louis and on a rainy evening on Oct 26 watched the Cards drop game 3 of a four game sweep to the Red Sox.
Flash forward about eight months and we receive Hua Mei’s referral. Hua Mei was born on October 25, 2004. She was found the following day on October 26. We’ll always know exactly where we were when Hua Mei was born and found.
As we were getting the paperwork prepared for Xia Mei toward the end of 2006, it occurred to me that the timing might coincide with Xia Mei being born in 2006. What a nice symmetry that would be. The Cards ended up winning the World Series in 2006. It’s cool finding patterns (odd coincidences?) like these.
Unfortunately the adoption process for Xia Mei was much slower than what we experienced for Hua Mei. But we finally have gotten the referral and as it turns out, rather than being born in 2006, Xia Mei was born in 2007.
As my sister Emily, the long-suffering Red Sox fan, would be happy to tell you, Boston won the World Series in both 2004 and 2007. I’m glad I’m not a Yankee fan.
Karen thinks I’m a loser for even thinking about stuff like this. I tell her it’s part of my charm. Professionals call it OCD. Fortunately it’s not so bad that I’m into conspiracy theories. On the other hand, what is it about freemasons? …
