The Good Life: A portrayal of beauty

About Us

Based in Pretoria, South Africa... My name is Loren, I am married to the LOVE of my life and on 08/08/08 we welcomed our first child into this world! Malakai is healthy, he is precious and he is the light of our lives... oh and he has a little something extra (commonly known as Down Syndrome).
On 29/01/2010 we had our second boy - Harlan. We are so excited that Malakai & Harlan will grow together as brothers and friends!
This is our journey into acceptance, love, the understanding that today is our greatest gift, and the celebration of our beautiful, perfect, amazing sons!

Blessed

Blessed are you who take the time to listen to difficult speech:
For you help us to know that if we persevere,
We can be understood.

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places,
And ignore the stares of strangers,
For in your companionship,
We find havens of peace.

Blessed are you who never bid us to "hurry up",
And more blessed are you
Who do not snatch tasks from our hands to do them for us,
For often we need time rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand beside us
As we enter new and untried ventures.
For our failures will be outweighed
By the times we surprise ourselves and you.

Blessed are you who ask for our help,
For our greatest need is to be needed.

Blessed are you when you assure us,
That the one thing that makes us individuals
Is not in our peculiar muscles,
Nor in our wounded nervous system,
Nor in our difficulties in learning,
Nor any exterior difference.
But is in our inner, personal, individual self
Which no affirmity can diminish or erase.

- Author Unknown

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

A portrayal of beauty

I wanted to steal a blog post from another blogger - Ruby's Life - and post it here.

Alas... I am just not that technically advanced - LOL!

So please, if you'd like to smile and appreciate something truly beautiful - please go visit this post - it's just breathtaking!

My two favourite things - an extra chromosome and a camera! :)

4 comments:

Stephanie said...: i did see this!!! It is breathtaking!!! Are we the luckiest people on earth or what! A slightly biased opinion but i think our kids are the most beautiful!; April 14, 2010 at 2:11 PM
Lacey said...: That is my favorite! My hubby wants to take pics of all our DS friends for his photography class project. I think when he's done I'm going to make a video like that!; April 14, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Loren - words escape me......

The most beautiful little smiles....

The most beautiful children.......

The most beautiful music .........

Plus one hormonal pregnant lady has to equal............ TEARS!

Thanks for sharing!

Lots of Love,
Megs; April 15, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Cheryl said...: Loren,I'm so glad you liked this and shared it.I have watched it several times and cry every time:); April 22, 2010 at 6:28 AM