The 'Duty" Blog - Ok I know its corny and maybe not funny to you but I chuckled at myself.

#2 blog – I guess this is the Duty blog – I said I was an old man, so you get old man jokes, sometimes.

When my partner fell in LA and it was clear he was in bad shape, it blew us away-mentally and physically. 

As I mentioned in blog #1, my family is a little weird, unique, maybe unusual.  What I mean by this is we do things differently.  For 36.5 years (because I lived away for 1.5 years after graduation), my wife and then our kids have shared a house with her parents.  Yes, I lived with my in-laws, and for the most part, it has worked well for us.  The good – my kids grew up with their grandparents as part of their immediate family.  The bad – I can’t walk around in my underwear without my mother in law seeing it.

However, that is another blog for another time.  So back to the fall and what happened next.

We received the call one week before Thanksgiving regarding the fall.  It seemed my FIL was returning his rent a car and tripped on the spikes of the exit.  It says not to exit there, but he recalls seeing people go that way and then actually being told to exit there.  Not sure exactly what happened next because there was no video.  The cameras were not working or something like that.  A decision had to be made and it was.  #1 Son was to go to LA and be with his papaw until other arrangements could be made because there was no way to comprehend what was to be next. 

Thanksgiving is one of our home’s favorite holidays.  We have friends, family, and neighbors over to celebrate.  Fried turkey, oven turkey, ham, fixings, and Tequila are on the menu.  At night we play games like charades, family feud, and other games where drunk people can laugh and be loud.  However, the 2013 Turkey day was going to be a little different than normal.  Since our #1 son was selected to go to LA to be with his grandfather, it was going to be a solemn Turkey day for us.  However, our friends weren’t going to let this happen.  They all came over that night and proceeded to spread joy, laughter, some tears to help us forget our immediate concerns, if it was just for one night.  I got this with some help truly resonated with all that night.

DaddiO