You guys have been in my head for a while every time a see you post, because you are about to start a journey like no other. Your main job is about to begin in training a little one to be a functioning adult in a crazy world, and you can't loose. Never having met you although I fell like I've known you all my life from your wisdom here and a pillar at SC. You guys are gonna be Awesome!
I’ve thought about my story but never told it and don’t know why today is the day. It’s a tough day being in my head! LOL I grew up without ever seeing my dad because he ran a small grocery store and worked 7 days a week, 14 hours a day. He killed himself from the stress to provide for us and lost him way too young at 51. I was 14 when you needed a dad the most. My life collapsed that day and didn’t finish school, as he would have made sure I did.
I too worked like him in my life to provide for my family and never saw my wife and Dominic much. The things you will do without and sacrifice for them will amaze you. Restaurants were a 60 to 70 hour a week job then and sometimes 7 days but never less than 6. I was driving to work one day @ 2:30 pm for a 3:00 to 2:00am shift and passed them going home for the day. Dominic was 3 then. This song came on the radio and I knew what I had to do. The first job I found was a mgr trainee at Valvoline instant oil change, 2 weeks later I gave my notice. From that day I never spent 1 day away from my family.
It was 1989 and I went from a $42000 job to $13000 and never looked back. This song still plays in my head today and gave me the strength when things got tough. I spent every single day from that point with him from 5 years of tae kwon do 4 days a week and a black belt, taking and picking him up from school to grueling help with baseball 6 days a week till he was 15. He didn't really need me much more from that age as he was finding his own. Such a proud dad and think about them every day. The worst thing was having to bury one of them but that’s another story. Words of wisdom for anyone who brings a child into the world. I share my song with them as it still brings a tear every time I hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5r2spPJ8g
I’ve thought about my story but never told it and don’t know why today is the day. It’s a tough day being in my head! LOL I grew up without ever seeing my dad because he ran a small grocery store and worked 7 days a week, 14 hours a day. He killed himself from the stress to provide for us and lost him way too young at 51. I was 14 when you needed a dad the most. My life collapsed that day and didn’t finish school, as he would have made sure I did.
I too worked like him in my life to provide for my family and never saw my wife and Dominic much. The things you will do without and sacrifice for them will amaze you. Restaurants were a 60 to 70 hour a week job then and sometimes 7 days but never less than 6. I was driving to work one day @ 2:30 pm for a 3:00 to 2:00am shift and passed them going home for the day. Dominic was 3 then. This song came on the radio and I knew what I had to do. The first job I found was a mgr trainee at Valvoline instant oil change, 2 weeks later I gave my notice. From that day I never spent 1 day away from my family.
It was 1989 and I went from a $42000 job to $13000 and never looked back. This song still plays in my head today and gave me the strength when things got tough. I spent every single day from that point with him from 5 years of tae kwon do 4 days a week and a black belt, taking and picking him up from school to grueling help with baseball 6 days a week till he was 15. He didn't really need me much more from that age as he was finding his own. Such a proud dad and think about them every day. The worst thing was having to bury one of them but that’s another story. Words of wisdom for anyone who brings a child into the world. I share my song with them as it still brings a tear every time I hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5r2spPJ8g
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.