Joy Is My Goal

Monday, November 12, 2007

My computer is broken, I do not know how long I will be offline. I will miss blogging on it :<

13 comments:

Britni said...: Sad. I will miss reading your posts. Richie told me the other day... "I was really disappointed when I looked at both yours and my mom's blog and neither were new." He's reading :); 2:29 PM
Sandy said...: I am sorry your are broken! Get better soon. I came here from Anni's and love your header.; 3:05 PM
Jennie said...: and we will miss you...; 4:22 PM
Jenni said...: I'll miss reading even though I don't always comment! :); 7:34 PM
Kari (GrannySkywalker) said...: Oh NO. Get it fixed! Get it fixed. GET IT FIXED!!! I'm so unhappy about this (nothing like focusing on MY feelings, huh?). I don't always leave comments but I love coming by to read what's going on with you! I really, really, really, really hope your computer is cured SOON! I'll miss you, in the meantime!
Kari; 8:48 PM
Klin said...: Your's is the 2nd computer that's broken recently in blogland:(

Hope it gets fixed soon.; 8:54 PM
Anonymous said...: oh no.... i hate it when that happens; it is hard to remember how to live life without one!; 10:12 PM
Unknown said...: This is about the 5th blog I've visted over the past week which has a broken computer.
Maybe you are all blogging to much!!
Blessings!; 6:24 PM
Unknown said...: Oh no - what a tragedy. I think I would go thru withdrawals. Hope you get thru this tough time...; 8:05 PM
Addicted to crafting said...: I'm soo sorry... I'm thinking of you. come back soon!!!!; 9:26 PM
Anonymous said...: So sad! I am patiently awaiting your return!; 2:33 PM
Leah said...: I'm sorry your computer is throwin' fits at you! Hate it when they get all temperamental like that.

I just popped over to check and see how your "Giving Thanks" list was coming. Looks like you were keeping up with things until you had computer trouble. Maybe one of the next items on your list will be Computer Technicians? =); 7:39 AM
Ladybird said...: will miss u until ur return.; 7:57 AM

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by 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 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 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…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 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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