Hot Air Balloon Gifts

Erika says:

I really feel you here. My husband has a disability. He is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair. I do not have a disability. We have been married for almost a year now and I feel like the luckiest woman on earth to be his wife. His disability will always be a part of our lives, but it by no means consumes it. Even though I see the chair everyday, I find myself forgetting that he is disabled. Before our wedding, there were people….family members of mine that tried telling me that I was making a mistake! They would look at me like my life was over. They couldn’t even hide the expressions on their faces. They made comments on how I “did his parents a favor” by marrying him. It was so rediculous and closed-minded and it really hurt me. One of my aunts actually emailed me telling me that “all people in wheelchairs are controlling and that he would isolate me from my family and friends”! He asked me to marry him! And I totally understand your feeling on the “big baby” comment. I will always help my husband with whatever he needs and I do take care of him, but he also equally takes care of me. We are married. We are supposed to take care of each other. In the past year we have done so much together. We ride our ATV together and we just bought a jetski and have been taking it out every weekend. Together we always find a way to make things work and honestly, we have not come accross one thing that we could not do. All with proper planning of course! This Sunday if the weather holds out, we will be going on our first hot air balloon ride. Anyway, I have learned to not let other people’s ignorance bother me. We live our lives just as everyone else does. And when I think of my husband, I think of a smart, whitty, handsome, passionate, hard-working, and loving man. The chair is just something he uses, it is not who he is.

Twitter says:

FACT The first hot air balloon flight traveled for 5.5 miles over Paris and lasted for 23 minutes BejahFIN