Any of you who have followed my postings know the increased heartache that came into our lives two years ago when my husband’s ex-wife sued him. If you recall, we had had the boys 50% of the time for 10 years and then my husband had to take a job out of state. Obviously there was a lot of animosity building between the ex and my husband for years and believe it or not, I was oblivious to it. Anyway, the point is, when my husband took the job out of state, that was the tipping point for her and it changed everyone’s lives in our household.
Our biological son just turned 5 at that time and for his entire life he knew that his brothers were with him every other week. Then, all of a sudden there was NOTHING. On top of that, a court order stated that they didn’t have to come over to our house unless their father was in town. But, I don’t want to rehash anything here that I’ve already written about. What I want to tell you is that you can never give up hope and you must persevere in your patience and great things will happen. It happened to us last week.
You see, last week was my son’s 7th birthday. Because it was the middle of the week, my husband could not be home to celebrate. BUT, he spoke with the boys and they said that they would come over to celebrate. I didn’t want to say anything, but when my son was upset that Daddy wasn’t going to be home to celebrate, I told him that his brothers were coming over. I usually don’t go out on a limb making promises because unfortunately there have been many times things don’t come to fruition. However, something told me to take a chance. I hadn’t heard anything from the boys until the evening before his birthday. They confirmed when they were coming over and asked what they could get him for a present. (Oh, BTW, forgot to mention that they bought him a couple of little presents for Christmas for the first time and gave my husband and I a beautiful card).
So, the beautiful part of the story is this: they came over on his birthday – this was the first time in almost 2 years that they came over without their dad being here and we had a great time. They played with their brother, gave him too many presents, stayed for dinner and cake, and hung out for quite a while. I can’t tell you how special that was not just to my son, but to me and my husband. It may seem like a trivial occurrence to a lot of people, but unless you have been in my shoes, you wouldn’t understand what a true gift from God that evening was.
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