On November 27, 2004 after spending a week-end with our cousins and their children we were feeling a bit low because here we were 51 years old and had no children of our own . That morning we listened to Scott Simon tell a story about his daughter http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4189029 .He had adopted a child from China and he was older than we were!! It occurred to us that we could do this. That night I researched the web to find adoption agencies and information. It was exciting..Was it real? The next day we told our friends Charlie and Marijke . They were the first to congratulate us. It seemed real.