Merry Christmas Parker & Truman

I really do not know how to begin. The subject is complicated for no reason so this is going to be a short note. I want to send you gifts but I do not know if y'all will receive them. I bought y'all something this year that will be around for as long as it takes us to reunite.

I have not forgotten about y'all or given up on y'all. There are forces that are trying to keep us apart. I want you to know I have had struggles in my life and regaining visitation with y'all has been and is the hardest. Once we reacquaint, you will know me and you will know I DO NOT GIVE UP! Do not let anyone tell you otherwise! I have a list longer that will support my tenacity and desire to be with y'all again than any short list that tells y'all otherwise. I do not want to criticize my opposition for it serves no purpose.

I am going to post a letter from last year when I came to your house and had the Harris County Constables actually take my gifts inside, I do not know if you received them or not so this year I bought a lifetime gift. The gift is a stellar gift and y'all will understand once we reacquaint.

I am attaching a letter that I hope explains why I choose this method.

Your Father,
Forever & Always,

Love,
Dad

Building New Beginnings

Parker & Truman,

I want yall to know that today I finished a 6-week course called "Building New Beginnings" and the is what we are going to do, build a new beginning. There is not and never has been a day that yall were not in my mind, hearts and prayers.

I know it has been a long time, but we will meet again. I have beenfighting to find a way to get to see you see 2004 and I believe I have found the way. It is going to be long and hard but I will suceed in getting yall back into my life. We will be together and I can not wait to see what big kids yall have grown into.

I Love You Both,
Forever & Always
Dad

Well She Did It Again

I was scheduled to go to court this morning to finalize the child support issue and Erika fired her attorney so we have to get yet another continuance. This is her fourth attorney; well 5th, because she had her sister find an attorney to send me a letter threatening me and I responded "Sue me! I will finally get my day in court and prove that she is in violation of her own fucked decree. Well, needless to say he backed off for two reasons; she didn't have the money to pay an attorney in Austin to represent her in Houston and because she would have lost and I would have visitation with my boys again.

The other crazy thing about this child support issue is that I am on disability and had ZERO money for 2 1/2 years. I was court ordered to pay $175 each month (for both). Now, my disability benefits pay my boys $233 each ($466 total) yet the two Texas appellate courts, the 1st & the 14th, have differing opinions on whether or not to credit the disability payments. The Office of the Attorney General states that I am in arrears $11,000 and the Department of Social Security asserts my boys have collected more than $18,000. In my opinion the OAG and the DRO (Domestic Relations Office) would rather me stand on the corner and sell crack to pay my court ordered $175 as oppose to me spending my time healing myself and letting my boys collect almost $500 per month.

All this has been going on since 2006 and I haven't even seen my boys since 2004.