Laci's Journey Home: Another square :O

Friday, May 11, 2007

Another square :O

40. We have another square! This one is from Bridgeton, New Jersey! Jason and I met NancyJo and Billy Williams on our honeymoon cruise in January 2000. We share a wedding date and shared a table at dinner while we cruised, becoming friends instantly. We have kept in touch through the years and we are thrilled that they have joined in our project! The Williams Family now includes two beautiful children, Gracie and Brent :)

3 comments:

Tracie Butka said...: We have the same LID date! Found your blog on the CCAI Jan/Feb Group. I have enjoyed your blog!; May 15, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Tracie Butka said...: Hi again, I have enjoyed all the posting of the quilt squares, Are you sign up for CCAI group Quilt Square Exchange? If not email me your address and I will send you a square and a wish for Laci.; May 15, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Heather said...: I am just catching up now that I have some time!!! Love looking at all the patches. You are going to have the most beautiful quilt! Can't wait to see it!; May 30, 2007 at 11:38 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

Friday, May 11, 2007

Another square :O

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~Trip To Holland~ Emily Perl Kingsley

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