We Found A House

We Found A House

We made an offer on a house this morning!!! It is a short sale, so we have a long wait ahead of us. It is a small 3 bedroom home, only 2 blocks from the kids' school. It has a big, flat back yard that will be perfect for the kids. Please send us your positive thoughts and prayers that the sale goes smoothly.

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Anonymous said…

YAY! Prayers for you and your family! Hope it will go quicker than anticipated !

May 18, 2011 at 12:15 PM

Liv Life said…

Best of luck to you and your family on this new endeavor. The yard sounds great!!!! Positive thoughts and prayers coming your way!

May 18, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Joanne Huff said…

Shannon, this is SUCH exciting news! We SO want you to get this house. 2 blocks from school, you can walk there in the spring, summer and fall, be there in a flash if either Waverly or Oliver need you and will have no commute. Such bliss! My fingers are cossed so firmly that they are practically sewed together! We'll be eagerly anticipating that there is a sold sign with your name on it very soon! xoxo Joanne

May 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM

Jan said…

Wonderful news! Praying all goes very very well.

May 18, 2011 at 5:31 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.