What we do…

  • Scenic landscape from the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area with red rock formations, snow-capped mountains, and grassy foreground under a partly cloudy blue sky.

    Real Estate Development

    We manage a development fund to invest in real estate project with the intent building a Real Estate Portfolio to fund the Holland House Project.

  • Construction plans with a laptop, clipboard, glasses, and hard hat on a wooden surface, with a person writing.

    OPD Construction

    We are a licensed General Contractor in the state of Utah holding both B100 and E100 licenses. We CM all of the projects we develop to maximize the proceeds from projects to fund the Holland House.

  • Modern townhouses with rooftop patios, desert landscaping, and a mountain background under a sunset sky.

    Nightly Rentals

    The Broken Kids Company owns a nightly rental property that we rent for income and donate as we can for respite to families who are in crisis and need time to mourn, grieve, and gather with family.

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A family of five, including two adults and three children, posing outdoors near a stream with fall foliage in the background. One child is in a wheelchair, and another child is held by an adult seated on a rock.

Established in 1997

When Susan and I tied the knot in June of 1997, we envisioned a bright and promising future. With Susan aspiring to be a school teacher while I dreamed of thriving in the home-building business in Utah, our plans felt boundless. However, as many of us know too well, life doesn’t always follow the script we write… so we found ourselves in our own special version of “Holland”

Raising two disabled children was never in our plans, nor was enduring the heartbreaking loss of two of our three beautiful kids. In the face of these unimaginable challenges, I took on the role of the "cruise director of fun." My mission became clear: to support my family while infusing our lives with laughter and joy. Our goal was to make our own special version of “Holland” as beautiful as we possibly could.

I affectionately referred to my two disabled kids as our "broken kids," believing that they merely had minor "broken parts" while being remarkably similar to any other children. It was essential for me that they knew this truth deeply. Each of my kids had their own special nickname—Mike was our mischievous “tardlick,” Emily was our joyful “Emsilly,” and Olivia, with her slender frame, was our “Twiggy.”

Our home was bursting with the energy of kids running around, screaming in delight, especially during wild games of dart gun battles. Those moments were filled with indescribable laughter and a sense of normalcy amid our unique circumstances.

Driven by humor and the memories of our children, we founded "The Broken Kids Company." Our mission is to share our passion for loving those with disabilities and to remind everyone we meet that every child is an invaluable gift. Through our work, we aim to shine a light on the beauty of families touched by disability and ensure that laughter continues to be a cornerstone of our lives.

We hope you will appreciate our story and mission and we hope it will inspire you to do great things and make this world a better place.

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Welcome to Holland…

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Welcome To Holland

by Emily Perl Kingsley

Copyright©1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley.

All rights reserved. 

Reprinted by permission of the author.

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.  It's like this……

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy.  You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans.  The Coliseum.  The Michelangelo David.  The gondolas in Venice.  You may learn some handy phrases in Italian.  It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives.  You pack your bags and off you go.  Several hours later, the plane lands. The flight attendant comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland.”

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy!  I'm supposed to be in Italy.  All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.”

But there's been a change in the flight plan.  They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease.  It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language.  And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It’s just a different place.  It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy.  But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips.  Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there.  And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."  

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Email from Emily Kingsley granting permission to use "Welcome to Holland," with conditions to credit her and use the official version. No copyright fee charged.
A Emily Perl Kingsley posing with the red puppet character Elmo from Sesame Street.
Emily Perl Kingsley and her son embracing in front of a stone building. The man, wearing a blue shirt, has his arm around the woman, who is wearing a striped shirt. They are both smiling.
Emily Perl Kingsley posing with three colorful, plush muppets in front of a staircase. The muppets include an orange one with a tiara, a red one named Elmo, and a pink and blue one with wings.