Laci's Journey Home: Our first blog post?!

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Our first blog post?!

Our first post, this should be interesting if I can figure it out....Jason usually handles this but insists I do it myself! So, here goes nothing, hopefully this is right :) We wanted to set up a blog so that friends and family who want to hear and learn all about our journey to Laci can check out our progress without us "pushing" our story onto you! I plan to update the blog as we progress through the long wait and review where we have been so far but I first wanted to just get this started! Happy New Year to everyone and come back and visit us :)

3 comments:

Laci's Uncle Ken and Aunt Erin said...: Happy New Year! Happy Anniversary! Good job on the blogging Beck. Erin and I will be staying tuned. Miss ya'll already!; December 31, 2006 at 4:27 PM
Heather said...: I am so excited about this!!!! Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary!; December 31, 2006 at 7:53 PM
Unknown said...: Wonderful idea to have a blog. We are also excited about yet another granddaughter (#7). Is that lucky?

Hope you had a fun new years eve.

papa c, nanny and aunt courtney; January 1, 2007 at 6:53 AM

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~Trip To Holland~ 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 guidebooks 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 some horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy a new guidebook. 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, 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."

The pain of that will never, ever, go away, because the loss of that dream is a 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.

Laci's Journey Home

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Our first blog post?!

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~Trip To Holland~ Emily Perl Kingsley

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