Welcome to Holland

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At 12:05 PM 5/17/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>The much loved poem written by Perl Kingsley

><http://autismfamilycircle.com/Holland.html>http://autismfamilycircle.com/Holla\

nd.html

This one is also good:

WELCOME TO BEIRUT by F. Rzucidlo

http://www.bbbautism.com/beginners_beirut.htm

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The much loved poem written by Perl Kingsley

http://autismfamilycircle.com/Holland.html

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Thank you for the nice compliments! You like Cherub & the Valentines

designs? - look at these:

http://signpetch.com/heartsandflowers.html

http://signpetch.com/songlife.html

http://signpetch.com/forme.html

http://signpetch.com/cupidsvalentine.html

http://signpetch.com/valnature.html

http://signpetch.com/heartsentwined.html

With more at this site to be found at:

http://signpetch.com/winterindex.html

Hope you enjoy!

signhawk

http://autismfamilycircle.com

> Hi Signhawk!

>

> You are so creative!! I meant to let you know that I loved the

> tribute to your daughter that you posted yesterday

> http://autismfamilycircle.com/tocathylovemom.html -she must love it

> too!

>

> Your pages remind me of the n era valentines day cards -

> beautiful images with a deep meaning behind them. You should see

if

> the Loveland, Colorado Postal Service has a " special sentiment "

> about " special " children that you can make a new page about

> http://www.countrycollector.com/valentines.html (Let me know if

> there is one about cherubs if you are going to ask!)

>

> =====

>

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I found this on another forum last week and loved it.

Welcome to Holland By Pearl 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 the

unique experience to understand it; to imagine how it would feel. Its

like this...

When your going to have a baby its like planning a fabulous

vacation to Italy.You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make wonderful

plans...The Coliseum, Michelangelo's , the gondolas of

Venice.You may learn some handy phrases in Italian.Its 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 " . You

say " Holland, what do you mean Holland?I signed up for Italy.All my

life I've dreamed of gooing to Italy " .The stewardess replies " There's

been a change in the flight plan. We've landed in Holland and here

you must stay " .The important thing is they haven't taken you to a

horrible, disgusting place full of pestilence, famine and disease.

Its just a different place.

So, you go and buy new guidebooks. You must learn a new

language. You will meet a whole new group of people you woould have

never met.It is slower paced than Italy,less flashy than Italy, but

after you have been there a while and catch your breath, you look

around and notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips,

Holland even has Rembrandts.But everyone you know is busy coming and

going from Italy, and there 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 is what I had planned " .

The pain of that will never, ever, ever,go away because the loss

of that dream is a significant loss.But if you spend your life

mourning the fact that you didn't get to go to Italy, you may never

be free to enjoy the very special, very lovely things about Holland.