Adios

December 06, 2008

Adios

We are off to the most magical place on earth. I cannot wait to share our trip with you. The kids are going to be so excited when we arrive.

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Angi said…

Can't wait to hear all about it...

December 7, 2008 at 7:46 PM

Anonymous said…

Have a safe trip and a fantastic time!

December 8, 2008 at 12:09 AM

Anonymous said…

Hope you and your family are having a great time and a break from the day to day routine at home.

December 10, 2008 at 11:07 PM

Laura said…

Can't wait to see pictures! Have an awesome trip!

December 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM

Katie said…

I hope you have a wonderful trip and make beautiful memories with your children. Disney is a great place for that! Looking forward to pictures and praying for good weather, good health, and happiness.

December 13, 2008 at 10:39 PM

Welcome to Holland

By Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland.""Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

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