Joy Is My Goal: Wordless Wednesday Funny Gifts or gifts that got a laugh

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Wordless Wednesday Funny Gifts or gifts that got a laugh

10 comments:

**"Liza"** said...: lol looks like you had a blast this Christmas and everyone had a gift..;)
My WW here; 11:31 AM
Regina said...: Wow, looks like you all had a blast! I like those t-shirts!

Blessings!; 12:00 PM
Liza said...: Looks like everyone had fun. Loved the shirts.; 1:04 PM
A Simple Life said...: Looks like fun. Everyone seems to enjoy the gifts. Happy WW.; 1:05 PM
Dont make me get out my flying Monkeys! said...: Come see the most embarrassing moment of my life, over at my Wordless Wednesday! I like your Wordless Wednesday post! Hope you had a great Holiday!

DEB; 3:02 PM
Jennie said...: how fun! looks like you had a wonderful day!

merry christmas!; 4:16 PM
Mrs. Monkey said...: Cool gifts! Love the shirts.
That Froggy towel would be a hit at my house. There would probably be fighting over it, so I guess it's better off at your home;); 5:47 PM
No Nonsense Girl said...: cool picture!!!! :); 8:34 PM
Sharon said...: The shirts were funny!Looks like everyone had a great time and you did much to reach your goal: Joy!; 7:04 AM
lovemycottagegarden said...: Looks like ya'll had a wonderful time together! Happy days for you. I got a snicker from the tshirt gift! Did they like it? Spencer is the tallest!; 3:41 PM

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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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Wordless Wednesday Funny Gifts or gifts that got a laugh

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