Queen of the Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries: Merry Christmas 2014

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas 2014

Just popping in to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas 2014 with a day of Peace, Joy and Contentment and Much Love......Wouldn't it be good if it was like this Every Day......just what The World needs

Many Thank Yous to all the Beautiful Bloggy Friends who comment and read my little Journal......I may not get around always due to Caring Duties but You just make my Day

And to everyone a very Merry Christmas......love Dzintra

12 comments:

Castles Crowns and Cottages said...: MERRY CHRISTMAS DZINTRA! Much love to you and the family! Anita; December 25, 2014 at 9:14 AM
Lynn said...: What a lovely Christmas wish! Lots of love to you at Christmas, your blog is such a gift.; December 25, 2014 at 3:34 PM
A Magical Whimsy said...: Hello, Dzintra
Sorry I don't get around as much as I used to in Blogland. I do think of you often and think of Jo-Jo too! Please let her know that! My Ty, my Down's son, turned 23 in November. He is doing well, can communicate very well, and it the sparkle in our family. Never a dull moment!
Have a lovely Holiday Season and always be blessed and safe wherever you go.
much love,
Teresa in California
http://amagicalwhimsy.blogspot.com/; December 25, 2014 at 3:37 PM
Susan said...: Merry Christmas to you too Dzintra. Wishing you a happy Christmas and a wonderful 2015.; December 25, 2014 at 8:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Merry Xmas my lovely friend,hope you had a lovely day.xx; December 25, 2014 at 8:37 PM
Susan said...: Merry Christmas to you and your family too Dzintra. Wishing you a wonderful 21015.; December 25, 2014 at 10:06 PM
RitaGri said...: Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus tev un visiem tavā ģimenē!
Pie mums ir uzsnidzis balts, skaists sniedziņš.; December 25, 2014 at 10:30 PM
Peg - Happy In Quilting said...: Merry Christmas to you all dear D xxx; December 25, 2014 at 10:40 PM
Chookyblue...... said...: Merry Christmas..........; December 26, 2014 at 6:27 AM
Anonymous said...: Merry Christmas Dzintra, hope you had a wonderful day and are laying back with your feet up this Boxing Day; December 26, 2014 at 8:01 AM
Palomasea said...: Merry Christmas, dearest Dzintra!
I miss you so!
I hope Christmas was full of love and joy, dear friend...
Big hugs across the miles to you and JoJo!
Love,
- Irina; December 26, 2014 at 9:07 AM
Michelle Ridgway said...: Merry Christmas to you too Dzintra. I hope you enjoyed your day xx; December 26, 2014 at 10:31 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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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas 2014

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