Grateful in the Moment for Family



the kids sleeping in the Honda

Christmas starts tomorrow. I have the kids over New Years Day this year.

Grateful

This is the first Christmas/New Years holiday break in two years that I didn’t have to ask for visitation. I didn’t have to drive to my ex-wife’s resident city to visit with the children. I’m grateful.

I’m grateful for my support system. That period was hard. I needed constant reassurance that the system, the arrangement [temporary court order] was broken. It was wrong. It was unfair.

The system severely impaired a loving father’s ability to co-parent. It was a system where the children would lose.

I couldn’t make sense of it.

There’s parts of our story I’ll never understand — but will impulsively try.

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