Happy Father's Day, Matt!!!

Happy Father's Day, Matt!!!

Today we celebrated Matt - the most amazing Daddy. And I truly mean amazing. I knew that Matt was going to be an incredible father very early on in our relationship. He has not let me down in the slightest. He loves Waverly & Oliver with all he is and all he has. Matt has always been fully involved in caring for the kids. He takes such great care of them. Waverly is Daddy's little girl and Oliver is his boy.

Happy Father's Day, Matt!!! We love you so very much.

Comments

Joanne said…

Hi Shannon,

What a sweet post you wrote and such touching pictures that you posted. I hope that Matt had a very wonderful Father's Day!! Joanne, Mom to Sasha

June 21, 2009 at 9:01 PM

Valerie Nelson said…

I LOVE the pictures!! Happy Father's Day, Matt!

-Valerie

June 22, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Jenkins said…

Love, love it!
Those pictures are wonderful...it melts my heart.

June 22, 2009 at 7:53 PM

Pamela @ Frugal Vet Tech said…

Lovely pictures. I especially like the one of Matt & Oliver.

June 24, 2009 at 5:40 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.