April 14th – 27 Weeks
Today we received the most
incredible and stressful news, we are officially moving back to Texas. Christopher received an official transfer to
the Ft. Worth plant. He has accepted the offer and starts work on May 16th
at the Ft. Worth plant. We have just
talked to the doctors and we have to be completely moved and under new doctor
care by 32 weeks, which means we have to move in less than a month. We have no time to process anything now it is
just time to hit the ground running!!
This is going to be incredibly bitter sweet because at this time of
being pregnant and the level of care baby girl is going to need it will be
wonderful to be closer to family. On the
other hand, however, I can’t imagine leaving the family we have created here in
Maryland.
Ft. Worth here we come!!
Someone shared this with me 13 years ago ... Now I share with you. It was written by Emily Kingsley ... 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.
ReplyDeleteAfter 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.
Thank you so much Emma. That was a beautiful way to look at an unexpected change in our life right now.
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