Double Trouble Deadline -> Bigger Than Pain.
I had 2 modules and 2 rehab plans left to complete. I’d been procrastinating for months. What was I saying about deadlines being more like timid suggestions….. This hit more like Thors hammer!!
Nov 2024. Life has settled into a steady busy rhythm. I have worked on my course more in 2024 than I did in the 2 years previous. Turns out, with parenting, “everything is just a phase”.... (Hat tip to all the parents reading this!).
I’m definitely getting closer to completing my course. So close that I have planned a whole other new content series for it - total glutton for punishment, I am…
My wife and I find out that we are expecting our third child. The thoughts begin to popup - “ya better finish those last few modules and get this course launched Davey… you know how busy life gets with a baby in the house”. I’m learning from experience this time.
Sunday morning. My wife decides we are going to soft play in a local centre and then before we jump in the car she announces to me: “I’m going to get a reassurance scan when you and the kids are at soft play. There’s a place nearby, it’s booked and I will just shoot across on my own when the kids are happy.”
“Oh, ok. No worries”.
She’s been so much tireder and sicker with this pregnancy.
We get to soft play and the time for her appointment approaches. I joke about finding triplets in there.
“Oh would you quit making silly jokes like that”....
35 mins later
Text Message: “David. If you aren’t sitting down, please sit down.”
I reply with LOL and say:” Nice try, you aren’t going to fool me today!”
“Twins.”“I’m not messing. Holy F**K.”
“Yeah right, quit pulling my leg. Was everything alright with the scan anyway?”
Radio silence for the next 15 mins.
I say to myself - IT COULDN’T BE TWINS. She’s winding me up.
And yet the more time that passes, the more I start to wonder if maybe she is serious.
Nah, it couldn’t be. I will take one look at her when she gets back and know rightly that shes been winding me up.
A few more mins pass. I look up to see my wifes face as he walks in and it is a look I will never forget…..
HOOOOOO-LLLLYYYYY FUCKKKK.
TWINS.
WTF.
We explode in hysterical laughter and giddiness. I have to go out to the car to see the actual images on the scan to fully believe it.
Mind starts racing…… need a new car, going to have to extend the house, the money…. holy fuck.
Genuinely that day will never ever leave me.
2 weeks later the dust is finally stating to settle.
Ok NOW I HAVE TO FINISH AND RELEASE THIS COURSE BEFORE THESE TWINS ARRIVE.. Or it will never get done.
I had 2 modules and 2 rehab plans left to complete.
I’d been procrastinating for months.
What was I saying about deadlines being more like timid suggestions….. This hit more like Thors hammer!!
Due date: June 2025. Twins arriving into our lives.
This deadline may as well have been branded on the inside of my skull!!!
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