Maskus Miracles: Sister Sunday

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Sister Sunday

After 29 long days, Lauren finally gets to meet her baby brother. It was love at first sight!

I often write about Evan on this blog, but it really is about our family. A huge part of our family is big sister LAUREN! She is an amazing big sister. She has loved Evan from the moment she first laid eyes on him. When he was born, the hospital was not allowing kids into the hospital due to the flu season, so she had to wait 29 long days to meet her baby brother.

I LOVE the way she makes him laugh, really the way she makes all of us laugh. I am so proud of her for her protective nature of her brother. He couldn't be more lucky to have her for a big sister!!

Christmas 2009

Easter 2010

Lauren giving Evan a push his first time ever in a swing

Evans 1st birthday! October 9, 2010

Christmas 2010

2 comments:

JamieFebruary 27, 2011 at 8:17 PM
She looks like an amazing big sister!
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Summers FamilyMarch 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM
They are just precious together. My boys are super great with Annabelle as well. Hoping you are all doing well.
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Welcome To Holland

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 guidebooks 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 some horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go out and buy a new guidebook. 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.”
The pain of that will never, 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.