Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Sailability...And On The Pier!!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sailability...And On The Pier!!!

Last weekend our Daughter JoJo had the opportunity to participate in Sailability. Sailability is the peak organization for Sailors with disabilities...which facilitates sailing for everyone regardless of age or disability with emphasis on opportunities for people with disabilities. To my understanding Sailability is world-wide. We photographed this very, very special and momentous occassion for her...

'Sailing Pelicans'

The historic Clyde River Bridge...Clyde River is famous for some of the cleanest oysters around...

Waiting patiently for her turn...

All set...

Doggy also enjoying...

A little distraction here...a local Restaurant ~On The Pier~ superb food, stunning views up and down the River...mountains on one side, town on the other...

Also popular for Weddings...

Back to the action now...heading off...

Cruisin'

And for us...while JoJo enjoyed her afternoon we headed off for...fish'nchips...yummmm!!!

Thank you Sailability, And very special thanks also to the Carers

A Great Day!!!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thank you for sharing such a heart-warming post. I had not heard of Sailability but what a wonderful opportunity. The day looks so bright and clear and your photos of the mountains and the pier and FOOD are great! Looks like a perfect day for memory making.; April 7, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Simone de Klerk said...: What a great time JoJo must have had (O: And the food really looks yummy! So nice to see the surroundings where you live! Have a lovely day (O: Simone; April 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Nat Palaskas said...: What fun, go Jo Jo...! Thanks for great pics. Dzintra - Love Nat; April 7, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Fer said...: What a perfect day for JoJo, and a great opportunity for her too.

The fish 'n' chips look sooooo yum. I have had quite a few yearnings for this particular dish of late!; April 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Kath said...: Well done Jo-jo, you have made your Mum very proud! Kath x; April 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Vicki's Bit-o-earth said...: JoJo looked like she was having fun. What a great thing, Sailability! Your beach looks wonderful Dzintra~; April 8, 2009 at 5:58 AM
Annabelle said...: Lovely to have this sort of activity available.Looks like your daughter had a good time.
Hugs Annabelle; April 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Jo in TAS said...: I saw a show on TV recently about this group! What a wonderful thing to do, I bet JoJo loved it!! Sounds like you had a relaxing time too!; April 8, 2009 at 1:18 PM
a good yarn said...: What a wonderful opportunity for Jo Jo and others and how delightful to spend the day boating in such a charming part of the country. The fish and chips looked delicious!...Ann :); April 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM
Micki said...: I told you that Jo Jo was very special. What a wonderful day all of you must have had!
Micki; April 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM
ceecee said...: This looks like it was a really fun day....and what could be better than fish and chips at the sea!
Catherine; April 10, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Welcome To My World

Hello, my name is Dzintra Ingrid ... have been known as Ingrid and since our Sea Change I have started to use Dzintra ... pronounced without the D ... (but still known as Ingrid, I know, it's confusing ...)

Welcome to my world ... a journal of our Sea Change ... Mum to three wonderful children ... bringing up a daughter with a disability and seeing life through her eyes ... being a new Nanna ... photos ... inspiring quotes ... taking on a cookery course ... the odd recipe ... and trying to get some stitching done amongst all this ...

Dedicated to Carers...

'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 trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum, Michelangelo's David - the gondolas of 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 has been a change in the flight plan. They have landed in Holland, and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, filthy place, full of famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must buy new guidebooks. 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, 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 are 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 is what I had planned'.

The pain of that will never go away, because the loss of a 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.

Written by Emily Perl Kingsley......Mother of a Child with a Disability

Kerri...

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war; and a time of peace.~

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sailability...And On The Pier!!!

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