Tag: kids
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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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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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Tuesday
A recent family scare told through the eyes of 4 of us. Step-Mother ‘I wonder if those girls are okay. I’ll run to the park to check on them.’ Said park is a good distance but I trust they could find it. 1 minute later… I arrive at the destined park, only to realize my […]
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The Hullabaloo
I’m not even going to ask if you ever find yourself caught up in the hullabaloo. We all know that spot well and some of us actually live there. I try not to. It’s more of an off-shoot and a “oh great, I’m here again” feel than a destination or a place I want to […]