At Color In Kids, we seriously believe that World Peace can be accomplished in our lifetime regardless of the perceived magnitude of the obstacles and opportunities before us.
More and more people are coming together collectively with a huge desire for peace - maybe like never before, because the need for peace has become so magnified.
We can bring peace, compassion and comfort to each other and become living examples of what humanity can, in fact, be.
We need minds and spirits coming together in the spirit of harmony, peace, love and plenty.
For our children, and their children, we must all bring some seemingly impossible good to pass ...it is the season!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The beauty of Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared the 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 wonderful vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful vacation plans. The Coliseum, Michelangelo's David, The gondolas in 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 flight attendant 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 plans. 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 but 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 awhile and you catch your breath, 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're 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 go away because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you did'nt get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous wonderful vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful vacation plans. The Coliseum, Michelangelo's David, The gondolas in 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 flight attendant 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 plans. 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 but 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 awhile and you catch your breath, 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're 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 go away because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you did'nt get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Discount Coupon
In celebration of our new blog, we have a 15% coupon available for all visitors to our website www.colorinkids.com . When you place your order, on checkout, enter coupon code blogintro to receive your 15% discount.
September winner
Our newest contest winner lives in England!!! Ruth your smile is golden!
Her Mom wrote us
"Both her and my son have worn them practically every other day as soon as they are out of the wash all summer long!"
Our adopted class at Running Springs Elementary
Here is our adopted class at Running Springs Elementary (CA) wearing their Color In Kids proudly.
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