We Came Here Alone

I remember the first time I came to Blogland. I don't, however remember how I got here. I believe God gently lead me here. He knew this is where I needed to be. For me... and for Him.

I came alone. No family around me. I wondered in when everyone was away doing there own thing. I came out of curiosity. I wanted to see how people lived. People afflicted with Ds. Yes I just said afflicted. When I came here, I didn't actually want to be here. I didn't want to be in this "world".

I didn't have very high hopes for my baby or for the future of our family. I expected everything to come crumbling down with her birth. I would try to conjure up ways out of this unacceptable situation we were in. Part of me came here to find the truth. The truth as I thought it was. That families who had a child with Ds could not possibly be as happy as they tried to make themselves out to be. I came here looking for the families who were miserable. Whose lives were ruined. Whose happiness was a thing of the past.

I couldn't find them. Where were they? Where were the people like me? The miserable, scared, freaked out people. Surly I was not the only one!

Instead, I found happy, beautiful families, with equally, happy and beautiful children, all sporting that extra chrom.

But, as I read deeper into the lives of these families I came to learn that these were the people like me. These were the miserable , scared, freaked out people! I found them!!!! But there was something different about them.
Just as I came here, alone, looking for answers, so most of you did too. But the answers were not what we expected. They were far from what I expected!!

The answers came from families with infants and toddlers and teens even adults with Ds. The answers came from families with healthy children, children battling cancer, children awaiting heart surgery, children in remission, children learning sign language, adults making there way in this world, little ones just starting school and teenagers graduating from High school. And the answers were the same from everyone! The answers I found were, Hope, and blessings, and joy. Unconditional love, and feelings I can't even put into words.


And these feelings overwhelmed me. And the miserable, scared , freaked out part of me grew smaller and smaller, until I couldn't find it anymore.
And I decided I wanted to stay here in Blogland. I wanted to share my experiences and feelings with others. I showed my family what I found and took them on a tour. And they liked it too.

Not every day is happy and perfect in Blogland, there are days of heartache and tragedy. There are days you just don't feel like it. Days you don't want to hear another little one is fighting for their life, or needs yet another surgery, or just has the doctors bewildered. Blogland is not a fairytale, it's a real place with real people. Don't let that scare you away. Because it's in those difficult times that we find our bond is unbreakable.

And although we enter Blogland one at a time for various reasons, it seems we all stay for one important reason. To help others, to encourage and support. To welcome! To spread the word about the "magic".


Blogland is getting bigger and bigger. I see new people arrive almost daily. All with so much to offer. All experiencing the magic..