tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276789587994379912.post7561334154730076709..comments2018-01-22T07:21:17.312-05:00Comments on Elizabeth Brown's Blog: My New LifeElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04013115624599272658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276789587994379912.post-45333771967055609962011-01-19T18:15:20.334-05:002011-01-19T18:15:20.334-05:00Thanks Heather! I honestly have more good days tha...Thanks Heather! I honestly have more good days than bad, better if I don't have time to think! Joshua's a very happy toddler (unless he's teething).Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04013115624599272658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276789587994379912.post-13437696447028373782011-01-19T17:42:35.837-05:002011-01-19T17:42:35.837-05:00Hey Elizabeth! It's Heather from 5MinutesforSp...Hey Elizabeth! It's Heather from 5MinutesforSpecialNeeds! <br /><br />I'm going to give away the secrets of the special needs universe...you get to grieve. You get to have bad days. You get to be mad. Sad. Angry. Happy. Tired. Scared. <br /><br />And I promise...as time goes on, your days start to get better. It takes a long time. I still have plenty of bad days. Days when I wish I could stay in bed and pretend none of this happens. <br /><br />Just know you have a friend. And I'll be happy to talk any time! <br /><br />Email: Heathersebi at gmailHeatherhttp://www.thehopefulelephant.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276789587994379912.post-38832207418559219422011-01-16T15:38:29.341-05:002011-01-16T15:38:29.341-05:00Although I don't like the part about the pain ...Although I don't like the part about the pain never ever going away, maybe that's the case but I'm really trying to stay positive and keep away from anything negative right now besides that may not be the case for everyone, it's all still very fresh and new so the pain is there but I'm doing all I can not to focus on it.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04013115624599272658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276789587994379912.post-43374954771105419122011-01-16T15:33:03.168-05:002011-01-16T15:33:03.168-05:00Thanks, Amy. Yeah it's a great video and yes I...Thanks, Amy. Yeah it's a great video and yes I know that poem and it's really great as well. It's printed on a Family Connection brochure I first got when Joshua started early intervention.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04013115624599272658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276789587994379912.post-9910750168465986792011-01-16T15:29:47.192-05:002011-01-16T15:29:47.192-05:00Elizabeth I love the video! Totally made me cry! ...Elizabeth I love the video! Totally made me cry! <br /><br />You have probably already seen this poem but my mom loved it. Sorta tracks with your blog about your new life!<br /><br />WELCOME TO HOLLAND<br />by<br />Emily Perl Kingsley.<br /><br />c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved<br /><br />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......<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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."<br /><br />"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."<br /><br />But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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." <br /><br />And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.<br /><br />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.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07267511010735381741noreply@blogger.com