Joy Is My Goal: Weekend pretty people

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Weekend pretty people

15 comments:

SandyCarlson said...: Pretty, indeed. These are great, vibrant photos. Great WS!; 7:11 AM
Carver said...: Great Halloween shots. I saw your link on weekend snapshot. I enjoy that meme. Have a pleasant week.; 7:15 AM
Anonymous said...: Lovely photos of lovely people. I don't know which one is my favorite. Thanks for sharing these photos.

Have a great week :); 7:29 AM
Anonymous said...: this is a fun post..i like the post before this most..the pics n the colors..autumn colors; 7:38 AM
Anonymous said...: Hello, I'm visiting again! All these people look so bright and happy! Have a great week ahead!; 8:00 AM
Lana said...: great shots!; 8:20 AM
MaR said...: These are great shots! love the eyelashes ;¬); 9:48 AM
Candy Minx said...: Wonderful costumes and absolutely gorgeous people!!!

Good pics!; 12:43 PM
nikko said...: Cute cute! I didn't see Alexis and Ethan's costumes. How great! And Rachel's eyelashes were very cool.

:o); 1:45 PM
HartofDixie said...: Everyone looks good in their costumes.
Great shots!
Thanks for dropping by.; 2:13 PM
Jennie said...: very cool! i love them!; 4:43 PM
SabineM said...: Lovely people! Great shots!; 11:15 PM
Heart of Rachel said...: Great photos of wonderful people. I love the kids in costume. I'm sure they had a great time. Those lashes are so pretty.; 11:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Lovely pics! Enjoyed reading your blog!; 11:43 PM
Addicted to crafting said...: great pictures!!!! :); 8:38 PM

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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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