Reflection Essay: The Aspects Of My Father's Life

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Throughout my lifetime many experiences have occurred that have shaped the individual that I am today. My parents dysfunctional relationship that resulted in a divorce and a very volatile childhood, living abroad as a child, my mothers death when I was 29 years old, my unfortunate relationship with my father, the many mistakes made and remade during early adulthood, waiting tables for what seemed like forever in order to get through school, traveling, my friends, my marriage, buying a “fixer upper”, the subsequent birth of our son, Angus, our darling foster daughter Cici who came to us when she was 3 weeks old, my husbands cancer diagnosis last October…Oh my God, as I read this it sounds like I’m pitching a story for a Lifetime movie!
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Her oncologist gave her 3 months to live…she passed away in October of 1992. I know she struggled to live in order to make sure that her children were going to be ok. Were we ok? That’s debatable, no one should lose their mother and I know it took me a long time to overcome the anger I felt because of her death but we don 't get to choose everything in this life so you have to decide to buck up or let it swallow …show more content…

Well, be careful what you wish for, because we received a call at 5:30 pm on a Tuesday and Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm I picked up a 8 lb. 3 ounce baby girl and I mean this quite literally, I was given an address and I picked her up on my way home from work, the case worker came to visit us about a week later. She is still with us, we have not been able to adopt her and her biological father was given custody when she was 1 year old but she has remained with us because he is unable to care for her properly and she sees him on the weekend. We are considered co-parents, but we consider her our

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