Category: Parenting
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Lexis’s Make A Wish Candy Extravaganza.
This morning we celebrated Lexis with the second part of her Make A Wish package…a limousine ride to a candy store shopping spree! Though the wish was hers, her sister and me were like three kids let loose in a candy store with an unlimited budget and goodness, was it a blast. The first part […]
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Slipping Into Oblivion: Keeping Your Head Above Water With Special Needs Twins.
I consider myself to be an exceptional parent but when wave after wave of failure comes crashing over head, in time, one begins to drown. I am the single father of twin fifteen year old girls with many a disability under their belts. From their premature entrance into this world until this very second, cognitively, […]
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Tapping Out/You Can’t Tap Out.
People have often asked me how do I do it. I say I put toothpaste on the bristles and rub it furiously against my pearly whites like everybody else, what did you expect?? I kid, I kid. What the reference is is to raising 3 children (2 having learning disabilities plus major life long health […]
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Some People’s Children.
Tonight will be my daughters’ first live NHL game and we are all quite excited. Why it’s taken this long to take them, I guess the only answer is priorities. No one in this household are sports fans on any level so that could explain it. Used to feel like I couldn’t afford certain luxuries […]
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Best To Be Seen And Heard.
Break out the fine china (as though I had any)! Alert the media (oh, they do care)! Assemble the mariachi band! My children are returning home!!! Ok, so my son has only been away for one month and my daughters about half of that but to me, it might as well been a decade. They […]
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A Perfect Circle.
Many things have been lost or stripped away but one thing will never fail and that is that I am a father. I have found jobs then lost them. Found salvation then walked away, only to re-find it. I have found romantic relationships then lost them. There’s been horrible sickness, vehicle accidents, failures, victories, promotions, […]
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Separation Anxiety 2.0
Recently, I was hired on at a Red Deer oil field company. Yay me, right? I get responses such as. “Wow that’s alot of money!” and “Congrats!” and “Oh good yo hear the economy is bouncing back”. I can’t speak for the economy but I am glad to have secured a quote unquote career witj […]
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Not Even The Icebergs Tip
We have been running into major difficulties with my twin daughter’s as of late and the troubles seem to escalate, dare I say, daily. Origins of the behaviours. Without too much back story, as even just a little would fill up this blog space, my girls have always had the deck more-than stacked against them. […]
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Each Tear Creates a Rainbow
They say you’re supposed to cherish each moment while your children grow up, because before you know it, it’s over and they’re gone, fully transformed into adults. Luckily, I have been enjoying those moments; the good and the bad. Luckily, I have seen them at their worst and lowest: whether paralyzed, dealing with the removal […]
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A Different Kind of Father
An important date at his daughters school arrives and he’s promised her he will be there, no matter what. The assembly begins, and he’s no where to be seen. Other parents trickle in late over the next 10 minutes and each time the auditorium door opens, her little heart jumps and tumbles. But every time […]
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True Fathers
To the sperm donors, this is not for you. Or the absentee fathers. Or the, “Who really is my father?!” fathers. I’m talking about the real dads, the genuine men. Do you know your father? Do you know who he is, who he was and who he wants to be? Being a single dad pretty […]