Living in the Light: What You Can Expect

Saturday, October 02, 2010

What You Can Expect

...to see here during the month of October:

- Thoughts, quotes and links related to all aspects of life with Down syndrome

- A post about our new blog title :)

- A new blogroll on the sidebar with links to other blogs about International Special Needs Adoption. I am also planning to add more blogs about Down syndrome. (Please leave a comment if you have/know of a blog you'd like to suggest!)

- Video of our girls in action :)

- And of course, stories, pictures and written updates on both Bridget and Alina!

If you have questions you'd like answered, or would like me to cover a specific topic, leave a note in the comments section on this post or send me a private email.

Our local Buddy Walk is tomorrow, and I will post pictures afterward.

Happy Down Syndrome Awareness Month!

2 comments:

MonicaSaturday, October 02, 2010
Thanks for the invitation to come visit :-) We'll be sure to follow your family over here now. I love reading about your double trouble...
ReplyDelete
Replies
LauraSunday, October 03, 2010
Happy DS Awareness Month! Your little girls are lovely (as are all of your children!)

I started my blog a few years ago to show others just how "typical" life with a child with Down Syndrome really is. I remember the early days when I had nothing to base his future on and just worried about everything so I hope my blog will ease the minds of parents just starting out on this journey.
http://nowimamom.blogspot.com/

I look forward to the "Many Adventures of Bridget and Alina!"
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Welcome

For those of you already following us, Bridget's Light and Loving Alina have merged :). For anyone who is new to our story, Welcome!

Bridget and Alina are the youngest of our six children. Bridget (born July, 2006) is our biological daughter. Alina (born March, 2007, and adopted into our family April, 2010) is the daughter of our hearts. Both girls have Down syndrome.

Feel free to browse this blog at your leisure, to comment or to email us. We're are happy to answer questions or provide more detail to others who are interested in learning more about life with Down syndrome, or about our International Adoption experience.

Living in the Light

I've replayed the day Bridget was born a million times...and I hate saying (and remembering) that the day was filled with sadness and uncertainty. It makes me mad--though I'm not sure at exactly who or what--that we wasted that day being somber when we should have been celebrating. I feel sad for the kids, for Chris and for me, and for our extended family and friends who were worried--heart heavy--for us. If we knew then what we know now, we would have been celebrating. The little girl that arrived in our lives that Sunday in July was the best thing that ever happened to us.

She is everything that is good about Life.

I've re-written the moments in my mind to go something like this:

We were just beginning.
A beautiful life awaited us--
and it was far more beautiful
than we'd imagined.
It is the day we got her;
the day that everything came together.
It is the day we began living in the light...

Take Your Coat Off & Stay Awhile...

If you visit our house, you are welcome to kick your shoes off by the front door, or leave them on--whichever is most comfortable for you. The same applies when you visit here.

You should feel free to stop by often or sporadically. Leave comments whenever you'd like, but don't feel obligated (I'll always answer questions or entertain topics for new posts. Just email me or leave a comment if there's something you'd like me to address or know. And I'll keep writing even if everyone out there is silent...but if everyone out there leaves feedback, I'll have much more to write about!)

If you knock on my door and I'm in my pj's, I may or may not answer (I always assume it's the Fed Ex guy, anyway). But that is part of the beauty of blogland...you can pop in here, without warning, at any time day or night. You can slip quietly away, or take up residence. Since there's no chance of waking a sleeping baby--or encountering unflushed toilets--you can also go anywhere you please on this blog at your leisure.

This is all to say that however you got here, and whatever shape you came in, I'm glad you stopped by. Feel free to stay awhile and look around...

Living in the Light

Saturday, October 02, 2010

What You Can Expect

2 comments:

Welcome

questions or comments?