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 My family just returned from a trip to Disney World, the happiest place on Earth, to celebrate my son Will's 5th birthday.
The trip was wonderful. It was a trip of "firsts." It was the first time Will had been on an airplane, the first time he had been to Florida since we moved from there when he was three months old. It was the first time he had been to Disney World. It was not the first time visiting there for either his father, or myself, but it felt like it because we were seeing everything differently - through Will's eyes.
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Will lives in a house where both of his parents work full-time. We spend a lot of time together in the evenings and on the weekends - but we are usually running errands, cleaning, and doing the things that need to be done to keep the house running properly. This was the first time that all three of us were able to just spend time together without having to worry about laundry, mowing the lawn, or grocery shopping. It was the first time in a long time that we had the opportunity to just simply enjoy each other's company.
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Since we've returned, I find myself missing Will more than usual while I am at work and counting down the hours until we get to sit and eat dinner together and chatter about our day. He's growing up faster than I ever imagined he would and I have made a promise to myself that I won't let it all pass me by. He's not my baby anymore (if you ask him he's not even a kid, he's a Jedi Knight), and sometimes I miss that, but I love the little person he is turning into.
Today is the International Day of Families and I encourage you to carve out some time to spend uninterrupted with your family. All those things that "you should and could be doing" can wait a bit. Trust me - it's well worth it!
Jenny Salisbury
AWP Special Events & Projects Manager |
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Notable Quotables
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
-Mother Teresa
"Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts."
- Unknown
"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
- Erma Bombeck
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
- Jane Howard
" 'Ohana' means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten."
- Lilo, Disney's Lilo and Stitch
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AWP is the only domestic violence community benefit organization in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. AWP has provided free, private, confidential, and comprehensive shelter, service, support, advocacy, outreach, training, and education to victims of domestic violence and their children and the community for the past 35 years. The free, private, and confidential hotline (1.800.220.8116) is available 24-hours a day. You can access information about AWP and domestic violence at www.awomansplace.org. |
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P. O. Box 299
Doylestown, PA 18901
Phone: 215.343.9241
Fax: 215.343.3411
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