House News - Almost There

January 05, 2012

House News - Almost There

We are getting so close to getting the house!! Yesterday, we received the approval letter from the second bank. We are waiting for the approval letter from the first bank and then we are ready to schedule closing. It could be any day now!! I know my stress level is going to sky rocket in the coming weeks with everything we are going to have to do, but it will all be worth it. Thanks for hanging in there with our family and for helping us get to this point.

Comments

Aubrey. said…

So stoked for you four!

January 5, 2012 at 9:51 PM

Tracey said…

So glad for you.. read your blog often and pray for you daily..

January 6, 2012 at 8:25 PM

Anonymous said…

Just checked your blog. Great photos. Still praying for your house paperwork. I marvel at your words of love and grace. You are such an encouragement. Loved hearing about your trip to Disney from you Mom. Brenda Noll

January 13, 2012 at 12:07 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.