Big Announcement!!

February 09, 2011

Big Announcement!!

My step-dad is going to be featured on the CBS show "Undercover Boss" on Sunday February 20th. We have obviously not yet seen the show, but he did talk a lot about Waverly & Oliver during taping. He is raising awareness about Sanfilippo on a national level!! Please tune in.

Comments

diplofam said…

wow! that's awesome! I will be sure to watch that one--what does he work for?

February 9, 2011 at 5:50 PM

Shannon said…

He works for Mack Trucks/Volvo.

February 10, 2011 at 11:26 AM

camille said…

Woohoo!! That's awesome!

February 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM

Jenkins said…

Oooo...celebrity for him and your kiddos!

February 11, 2011 at 8:42 AM

Courtney said…

My husband and I both attended TU and watched the show last night...as soon as I heard your step-dad talking about his grandkids and they showed their pictures and he said their names, I remembered reading your story in the TU magazine! We can't imagine battling what you are faced with, but we are certainly praying for you and your family!

February 21, 2011 at 9:37 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.