Re: The Life That Chose Me

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Wow..... Thanks,CarolynFrom: Debbi <daffymom@...> Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 2:28:45 PMSubject: ( ) The Life That Chose Me

This song brought me to tears. It expresses the feeling of special needs parents better than anything I have ever heard.

Debbi in So CA

Mom to 24 and (my Aspie) 21

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Thank you, From: Carolyn Weisbard <ccweisbard@...> Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 3:46:03 PMSubject: Re: ( ) The Life That Chose Me

Wow..... Thanks,CarolynFrom: Debbi <daffymom@...> Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 2:28:45 PMSubject: ( ) The Life That Chose Me

This song brought me to tears. It expresses the feeling of special needs parents better than anything I have ever heard.

Debbi in So CA

Mom to 24 and (my Aspie) 21

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Wow..... Thanks,CarolynFrom: Debbi <daffymom@...> Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 2:28:45 PMSubject: ( ) The Life That Chose Me

This song brought me to tears. It expresses the feeling of special needs parents better than anything I have ever heard.

Debbi in So CA

Mom to 24 and (my Aspie) 21

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WOW !!!! Grab the kleenex box before viewing. Hits home in ways I didn't even realize and acknowledge to myself.

Thanks!

P.

From: Debbi <daffymom@...>Subject: ( ) The Life That Chose Me Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 12:28 PM

This song brought me to tears. It expresses the feeling of special needs parents better than anything I have ever heard.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84FHZhB5__YDebbi in So CAMom to 24 and (my Aspie) 21

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This reminds me of the poem about Holland.

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

by Perl Kingsley.

c1987 by Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved

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 . 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 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.

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.

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 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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Mom to my 4 girls

Madeline, Cayla, Arabella, & Vincenza

"You are the TRIP I did not take

You are the PEARLS I cannot buy

You are the blue Italian LAKE

YOU are my piece of foreign SKY"

---Anne ----

( ) The Life That Chose Me

Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 12:28 PM

This song brought me to tears. It expresses the feeling of special needs parents better than anything I have ever heard.

Debbi in So CA

Mom to 24 and (my Aspie) 21

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Wow, I am glad I took the time to click on the link and listen to the song......I recieve the daily posts and read most of them but I don't usually post anything myself.......the video was soooo nice.......and totally true......I know as a parent, I do have "special needs" that my friends, who are "regular parents".....don't need. Thanks for sharing this video.

Debbie (San Diego, CA)

From: Debbi <daffymom@...>Subject: ( ) The Life That Chose Me Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 12:28 PM

This song brought me to tears. It expresses the feeling of special needs parents better than anything I have ever heard.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84FHZhB5__YDebbi in So CAMom to 24 and (my Aspie) 21

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Wow, such a moving song! It really hit home, thanks for sharing!

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