Friday, July 12, 2013

There's no way out of here

We moved! Across the country! It was a bit hairy but we all got here in one piece and we are slowly settling in. The first several days were difficult because Daniel did not want to sleep in his new room. We think it was because he has slept in hotel rooms with all of us for ten days, anyone would be confused by that. We managed to try to make the trip interesting, though we were also trying to get out here in a good amount of time too.

The most difficult part of the entire move for me has been Daniel's reaction. Because of his developmental delays he does not and has not been able to fully understand the whole idea of moving. He would keep asking to "go home" when we were stopping every night in a new hotel, and we tried but couldn't explain to him that we were moving to a new home. It almost felt as though we were taking him from his home and never returning him. I felt so bad. What was even worse was coming here and not having him sleep. He would cry bloody murder in his room as though we were torturing him. We didn't know what to do, and being exhausted ourselves we did not respond well to him getting out of his bed and also to each other. I felt alone and kept thinking about how our lives would never change and how Daniel would never learn. I keep thinking of a particular song that reminds me of our situation by David Gilmour:

There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There are no boundaries set
The time and yet
You waste it still
So it slips through your hands
Like grains of sand
You watch it go
There's no time to be lost
You'll pay the cost
So get it right
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There never was there an answer
There an answer
Not without listening
Without seeing
There are no answers here
When you look out
You don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There never was there an answer
There an answer
Not without listening
Without seeing
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There was no promise made
The part you played
The chance you took
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good
There are no answers here
When you look out
You don't see in
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good

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