{"id":141827,"date":"2023-09-28T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/?p=141827"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T22:26:28","slug":"i-wish-someone-would-have-told-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/i-wish-someone-would-have-told-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish someone would have told me\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amy Stack, mom to Lael and 6 other beautiful children, shares her potent words on what she wished she would have been told after receiving her daughter’s Down syndrome diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wish someone would have told me\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I cradled my sweet baby girl, falling in love with her almond-shaped eyes,<\/em> snuggling her close to my heart as I listened to the doctors, the nurses, and the therapists; as I sat surrounded by pamphlets and support group fliers; as I googled and found so much sadness\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish someone would have told me that one day she\u2019d make me laugh a deep, belly laugh that not many can get out of me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish someone would have told me that we\u2019d sit and read books together and that she would have her favorites memorized with hand motions and silly voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wish someone would have told me that she just might be a born entertainer and could command a room with a song, a microphone, a dance, or a silly face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish someone would have told me that she\u2019d quietly sit and color and occasionally look up at her sister\u2019s page and exclaim, \u201cGood job!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish someone would have told me that she\u2019d be the first one up the ladder and down the slide at the playground, and would make three friends on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish someone would have told me that she\u2019d be the one holding us one day, pulling our heads to her heart and rubbing our backs when we don\u2019t feel well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish someone would have told me that she\u2019d give me a kiss and then say \u201cthank you,\u201d that she\u2019d play dress up like her favorite movie character, that she\u2019d do magic tricks, sing songs, say her prayers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I wish someone would have told me that all this love and joy and adventure would be my everyday experience. All these things\u2026in one day. And though it\u2019s mixed <\/em>with frustration, difficulty, and a lot of work, every moment I get to spend with her I feel pure love<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I would have thrown away the pamphlets sooner and enjoyed the baby days more. I wish I would have spent my energy doing less and loving more<\/em>. But we have the rest of our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, my sweet girl, for teaching me what I have said I believed all these years: that nothing is impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amy Stack, mom to Lael and 6 other beautiful children, shares her potent words on what she wished she would have been told after receiving her daughter’s Down syndrome diagnosis. I wish someone would have told me\u2026 As I cradled my sweet baby girl, falling in love with her almond-shaped eyes, snuggling her close to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":141838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/cleveland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}