Laci's Journey Home

Sunday, April 15, 2007

30. We received another wish and square of fabric yesterday, this one is from Laci's Aunt Wendy (Haskew) in Dahlonega, Georgia. This square of fabric has a special memory for me, it came from a shirt I bought Wendy's youngest son, Justin, for his 5th birthday. Justin loved Tony Hawk (skateboarder) so I bought him this shirt and I also bought myself one so we could be twins :) I have a photo next to my computer of us together wearing these shirts, that I will also include in the scrapbook! I am happy, although also sad, that Justin has outgrown his shirt so it can be included in the quilt!!

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Mom K said...: Boy, I am really enjoying seeing all the beautiful squares of material you are receiving for the quilt. It sure will make for a special quilt for little Laci. She doesn't realize how lucky she is to have such a caring mom and dad and little brother.....
Love,
Mom K; April 15, 2007 at 3:27 PM

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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, April 15, 2007

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~Trip To Holland~ Emily Perl Kingsley

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