As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today.
What is one thing that happened recently, that you would like to remember in 10 years?
This is an easy question for me to answer; especially since the thing I would like to remember is very recent. 10 years from now, I would like to remember this past Christmas, as I celebrated it with both kid 1 and kid 2.
As I mentioned on some previous posts, kid one will be turning 18 this March. And while he was still always be my child, he will technically be “an adult“ and he will no longer be legally obligated to adhere to the visitation order that is in place between me and X1. So in a sense, this is really the last “kid Christmas” I’ll have with him.
what’s more, kid 2 is nine” this year. I know for me personally, I was about nine or 10 years old when I stopped believing in Santa Claus. In the very least, that was the age where I started maintaining that I believe in Santa Claus, just to placate my parents. So when a sentence, this might be one of the last Christmases, where Kid 2 was able to experience the “Christmas magic“.
I tried to make this holiday visit as memorable as possible, for both of them. We spent a lot of time hanging out with their cousins – more specifically, my brothers kids. We shopped. Kids who got his photo taken him with Santa Claus. We went to see Christmas lights. We attempted to go to downtown Detroit, but tickets to tour Michigan Central were sold out.
In addition, kid 1 and I were able to have some deep, heart to heart “man-to-man”conversations about his relationship with his mother, his relationship with his girlfriend, and the future as he’s preparing to go to college. these are some necessary conversations that we have been needing to have for some time. Best of all, I think we both felt better about everything afterward.
Christmas 2024 was expensive, emotionally trying , and physically tiring. However, I would not have changed any of it. I hope that 10 years from now, kid 1 one, Kid 2 and I can look back on this past holiday season with fond memories. 
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- Teacher Armor and the Saturday Clearing
- The Extra Day: A Ten-Year Memory
- Of Training Wheels and Christmas Lights
- Charity Starts at Home (And I’m Back in My Childhood One)
- The Muscle of Empathy
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