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Saturday, November 10, 2012

10!

thankful today for soda, some days this is the only thing keeping me awake

Posted by Dotty at 6:45 PM

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Dotty: hi, im a mom to three wonderful blessings i call my sons. Mikey is almost 9, spunky, sneaky and full of energy oh yea and he has aspegers, and adhd. Chance is almost 6, he is a cuddle bug and a big helper, he is super smart too:) Chance has asthma, allergies and pdd-nos, like his brother he is also on the autisim spectrum. Zachary is our youngest, at 3 years. Zach was born with a rare condtion called congenital diaphramatic hernia and currently has a feeding tube, is oxygen dependent, has brain atrophy, reflux, scoliosis...yadda yadda, he is the happiest baby ever! the boys are all a blessing, and we are lucky to have them:) im married to my best friend, and high school sweetheart, who is a soldier in the army, we have lived in Germany, and Texas and have endured many seperations to both iraq and korea. i love crafts though im not very inclined to do many, i love reading though i dont get much time, and internet research. i try to remain positive and thankful even on rough days................

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Welcome to Holland

byEmily 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.* * *
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