Splendid Mayhem: In Need Of Your EMAIL~

Welcome To Holland

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.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

In Need Of Your EMAIL~

Somehow, my contacts list in my email was erased. I'm not really sure how- b/c why in the heck would I erase my address book?!?!?!?!?!

So, I have NO EMAIL ADDRESSES. I was trying to email Kiera just now and typed in the K, which usually brings up all my K's... thats when I noticed it. It's empty.

So, even if you send me nothing at all. I just need your email address once again. Don't get your feelings hurt if you get no email from me before you send me your address b/c once again- I don't know how to get ahold of you :(

jklduncan@yahoo.com

Oh, yes- Kiera--- if you'd just send me your addy I'll finish my email to you :) I could go to your blog, I know... maybe I'll do that to.

3 comments:

KieraOctober 7, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Ding - you have mail!
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AnonymousOctober 8, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Thanks for my blog comment Jessica! We had a blast at Disneyland, but we always do. The last time were there was 06'. My email is b2606@cox.net, I was going to send you an email, but figured I would just post here. Take care!
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Mama LauraOctober 17, 2008 at 9:19 PM
You've been tagged!

I'm choosing this entry to tag you on, because the most recent 2 are more serious, and I don't want you to think I'm taking them lightly.
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