Breaking Bad News...

Yesterday started out like any normal day here in our house since I became a stay at home dad.

I got up at 5am before anyone wakes up, to work in my home office until 7am.

Being a busy dad who needed to find more time to get things done and work on my online business and writing projects for magazines, this is how I "made" more time in my day. I got up earlier.

Think about this the next time you say I don't have time to exercise. Make the small sacrifice and stay up a little later or get up a little earlier so you can get in a short workout.

Yeah it might seem tough at first, but if you want to be successful in whatever you work towards in life you have to be willing to do what others are not willing to do.

So after having breakfast with our baby daughter my wife headed off to work and Matea and I headed downstairs to play.

Unfortunately, that's when I got the phone call, and it wasn't good news.

My aunt Violet, who is my mother's closest sister, passed away in her sleep...

At 65 she had been battling blocked arteries and a bad heart and encountered many health problems over the years including brain surgery many years back.

She was also a long-time heavy smoker who didn't take good care of herself.

I could go on about how this can happen to you if you don't start living a healthy lifestyle, but I won't because I think these events speak for themselves.

To make matters worse my mother was out running errands and we needed to get a hold of her to break the bad news.

As I was trying to put Matea down for a mid-morning nap, Mom happened to drop in for a visit... Now I was the one who had to tell her she just lost her sister!

Well as you can imagine, we all had a sad day here yesterday. Our thoughts are with my uncle Dallas (her husband) and the rest of our extended family.

Aunt Violet was the nicest, warmest, person you could ever meet. She came in to visit us from Montreal many times for Christmas, my high-school graduation and I will never forget how she catered to me in the summer of 88 when we stayed at their cottage on vacation and I came down with the chicken pox!

Give your family a big hug today, because you never know what tomorrow will bring...




Sean Barker, CPT

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