Welcome To Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved.

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.

Winter Challenge

Our Church is doing a winter challenge- you register for $5 then you get a note book to follow and record the progress, the main things of the challenge is: Devotions, Attend church, Tithe, Exercise and bring someone- Im also adding a few of my own-


No Biting my nails

Drink 2L of water a day

Eat Healthily
Start Exercising (I am not doing the 5k or 10k challenge but I will Start some exercise)

Tithe

Read 1 psalm a day and record what inspires me about each psalm as well as the scripture in the notebook
Bring someone to church
No swearing and Be positive


I want to change my life- well I want God to empower me to change it so i'm starting here and now....WATCH THIS SPACE


Did you know elephants can't jump??

First time Blogger

Well I thought I would give this blogging thing a go, so here I am chilling out at home alone, yay some peace- nah jokes but it is kinda nice to have the place to my self while the family is away......Its been a bit of a crazy week, I decided a few months ago I would move to Aussie and then Changed my mind- im not usually so indecieve but I seem to be going through a bit of a stage at the moment lol. I Can't wait to see what God is doing unbeknown to us yet. He is my king, The author of my life and its now time to give him EVERYTHING, even when nothing makes sense.........