Connected, thanks to the children, and, without having your children, you would’ve, never had the opportunity, to meet up with, so many wonderful people who ended up, offering you the help, and the support you needed, in the various stages of your lives, translated…
Everybody around me, became acquaintances or friends, because of my twins.
This isn’t, the least big exaggerated.
A parent from the the children’s school band rode his motorcycle to the CKS Memorial on this hard-to-come-by New Year’s vacation, he, being a amateur saxophonist, rode out in the wind, just to teach my son who couldn’t, play a note in tune, to teach him how to change his breaths while playing, to make the notes sound better.
On the next long weekend, my twin daughter’s classmate’s grandparents who’d owned a duck boat tour, had already set up the trip to send the children out onto the river, to get them to experience rowing the boats.
Before the births of my twi children, although I’d worked in the news media, but, those whom I’d come in contact with, I’d not gotten to know well at all, and, making the friends that I cherished, actually, came after I became a mother.
There was a mother before whose mother died of cancer, needed someone to write her life out into a psalm, I’d done the best I could, and, as the elderly woman read what I wrote for her, she was, more than pleased, and so, every time this mom passed by our house, she’d, always left small gifts for us out front. As my father had ascites during the terminal stage of liver sclerosis, a mom who is a nurse at a hospital, did all she could, to get my father seen by a specialist, and assisted us the best she possibly can’t, and it’d, helped take the panic we felt away, that we were, able to, help my father pass his final stage of life.
A parent who loved extreme sports took the my entire family to ski; a mom who has an excellent child, she’d strongly recommended that my children take up musical instruments in the band; the mom who is familiar with the marketplaces, took us along to shop for the freshest groceries; and another parent, who always had on a straight face, said that we could set our household register in his residence, so my children can go to the school they wanted to study in.
Whether it be when the children misbehaved, marital difficulties, loved ones dying, we could all, safely, melt down in front of these people we trusted, without worrying of our behaviors getting sent to the gossip mills, and we could also, let our guards down completely, because we were all, connected, by the innocence of our own young children, creating a better world, is a common goal that all of us shared.
Turning back to look, through the years, we’d, cried, laughed together, a lot of them were friends whom we’d come to know, because of our young children, I want to thank my children, and those parents who stayed by our sides, supported us emotionally, and physically too, the treks to raising the next generation isn’t easy, thankfully, I have, all of you, to give me an assortment of various kinds of supports I will need.
And so, this group of parents became, a support group of sorts, they offered one another supports, whether it be advice, emotional supports, or any and everything else, and this mother wouldn’t have met these wonderful people, had it not been for her own twin children.
Life, the Obstacle Course 