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All right, what we're about to do right now on the radio is going to be my favorite thing that we're going to talk about all day. And you'll find out why in just a second. But I want you to listen up. This is one of those ones where it's like, hey, look up here, right up here.

One, two, three, eyes on me. That's it.

And you specifically, because this is something that you had happen over the weekend. And I think that this is a truly beautiful situation. What happened?

Back in January, Lucy's fifth grade class had an assignment for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. to they learned about his I had a dream speech and so their assignment was they had to write a paper and I had a dream paper about something that was that they wished for in their own lives and so Luce wrote about her family and very specifically she wrote about how she had a dream that both sides of her family mom's side and dad's side could get together for a dinner and engage with one another and it was one of those things where i took it out of her backpack and read it and i just thought okay we need to make this happen because we don't really do that

anymore um unfortunately after the divorce and after everything yeah so for her for her little

heart to want that and write a paper about it was a really really big deal and so um i knew that we needed needed to make it happen and so myself and her dad and stepmom stepdad all decided that we were gonna make her dream come true and on Saturday night in celebration of her birthday we all got together with the grandparents everybody was there and we surprised her and everybody did a dinner she did not know that this was gonna happen he had no idea that this was happening we've been planning this for about a month that we were all going to get together and do this um and that little girl walked into that restaurant and the surprise on her face when she saw everybody on both sides of her family together was i'll never forget it wow i'll never forget it yeah it um

it seems so easy but sometimes you know in circumstances like this it's not easy doesn't happen yeah and it probably has made you and uh lucy's dad who are great people both you guys are great people and you guys do a great job you know co-parenting your kids but it probably made you

guys realize oh the kids notice they notice that we don't do this yeah and I uh I commend both of you I and I commend obviously the the step parents and grandparents and cousins for all being there but mainly you two guys because you two guys have to be the driving force of something like this yeah and um that's a you know it's funny is you and I have talked over the last weeks about this and actually the letter when you when you read the letter to me um I said to you I go because you saw it i said you got to yeah send this you know andrew's way yeah because i think that uh yeah he's an amazing guy an amazing dad and i think that anybody that reads that thing realizes and you're a child of divorce a lot of times you probably didn't speak up what you really wanted

to have happen right for sure and we want we always want to make sure that she feels like her feelings are valid and she feels heard and i just to see her so freaking happy it was and she's a happy kid anyway but this was really really a cool moment for for everybody who was

there it was well it had to be fun for her but it had to be also fun for smith and it had to be fun yeah for you know they were cousins there and stuff too so smith yeah some cousins were there that's cool that's awesome yeah um you know it's it's interesting because of uh you know divorce affects so many different so many people but who it truly affects the most are the kids no matter what age they are luke uh has friends of his who's who's you know parents got divorced later in their life and those kids those guys are equally as affected like when you start seeing you know like the parents weekends and things like that where the kids have to go to separate parent weekend things in college because the parents can't put their you know their battles aside and say this is not about us this is about them yeah and to me I sit there and I think to myself I'm like I uh I just don't understand why people are like that you know what I mean like and this is good this hopefully this is a good situation for you guys all through the future because this is uh this is important it's important to your kids I mean it would it as

soon as you realize like how important it is how important it was to lose everybody was like yep we're doing it

I almost kind of want to do a tell me something good but not tell me something good I want to ask you guys a question has your situation in your family life ever come to an I had a dream paper where something brought you guys together and said alright we got to stop our battles because the kids are seeing the battles 844-MOJO-LIVE 844-665-6548 is the telephone number i would like to think that if my wife and i were not together that we would both be rational enough but you know pettiness plays a part in things and i've said to chelsea numerous times like actually chelsea said this more so than me than she says that she would hope that if anything we could still be friends if we ever did you know end up divorced and we almost did a couple of times and I told her absolutely and I would hope that you would

be friends with my 26 year old new wife I knew I was just waiting I have a similar thing though

to Shannon yeah I remember um and I obviously don't have a relationship with my mother but I was invited to my cousin's wedding and so and so this is my mom's sister's daughter right so this is my mom's side of the family and not only was i invited but so was my dad and my brother and the three of us went to this wedding down in kentucky and got to spend time with family that we had not seen in a very long time and reconnected and now i see the entire side my mother's

entire side of the family regularly well they love your dad they know your dad's the same guy

yeah oh my god and they they talk to him all of the time it's been great it's been really great

and it's got to feel comforting for you because you know i know that it hasn't been a great you know time with all the circumstances so it's just nice not to lose those side relationships that had nothing to do with me you know what i mean yeah uh initial l would like to be voice

disguised what's up l hi good morning everybody good morning what's going on uh i was just so touched by lucy's letter um it was always my dream to have my dad and my stepdad walking down the But unfortunately, we just don't get along. So I ended up having to elope. But now the only way I can get my entire blended family together is through my son.

Wow.

The only way I can get him all in one room without fighting.

So here you are. You're a grown woman, right? And all you want to have is two grown human beings to do this for you. And they won't even do it for your day.

That's really tough.

Is it dad?

that's more so upset or stepdad?

Well, my stepdad raised me. My dad, for lack of better words, abandoned me.

Wow.

But, you know, in my 20s, I sought out to kind of reconnect with him, and we've had a great connection.

Good.

I just really had this beautiful vision of both of them walking me down the aisle, but for my stepdad, it was just asking for too much, which I understand.

Because I'm sure that this is the case. He probably feels like, hey, I did all the work and this guy is going to get the glory.

I understand. I understand that, too. I hear that time and time again when people are getting married. And I think it's just because it's tradition that it's your dad. But like in your case, as is the case for a lot of people, there's somebody else that stepped in and filled that role. It was your stepdad or in some cases it's, you know, a mom. And, you know, you you let that person shine in that moment.

Hey, what's up, Jessica? It's Mojo in the morning.

um i was just listening and i got a little teary-eyed um as a child of divorce whose parents fought all up and finally got together for my wedding and have been better since then i just got very emotional because that was what i wanted for a child and i'm so happy that she got that because it definitely affected my adulthood and i wasn't there before it so i'm just very happy for her and that is the dream you know it's when they fight it definitely affects your

adulthood it's i'm glad you called and that's why i said this was going to be the most important thing we're going to talk about today because i think that there's many jessica there's many of you out there right now that are grown adults that say that would have been a dream of yours

just to be able to have them for a birthday dinner together uh jennifer what's up hello so i'm 55 years old my parents got divorced when i was one they each got remarried so i have three siblings on each side they have never been in the same room except for the day i got married which this year will be 15 years yay but um i don't know that i'll they'll ever be in the same room i mean god forbid unless something happens to me i don't know that i'll ever have both families in one room again ever and that it was very important to me that we had a video so that i could have video all over the place so i could have it to keep forever but you know it's hard i'm the oldest is seven and the three and three aren't related at all so there would be no reason for them to but for me and like for lucy yeah for me and like for lucy it's hard there was one time i was in Disneyland and my family lived in California. So we were there and we were in line and my siblings didn't even say anything to each other because they had never met each other. Like one sister was there and I was there with my Michigan family. So, I mean, it's difficult. And I think that you are doing so amazing for Lucy because, you know, again, that was back like, you know, 70s, 80s, you know, now where we are, it's different. And I even know a couple who were divorced and lived across the street from each other because it was easier for the kids that's you know and everybody got along yeah so i just wanted to share because you're right this is a very important subject and people don't always think of the kids because they're too involved in thinking and what they're going through so i just had to call and share thank you jennifer okay uh jared what's up hi

hey man this is the second time calling second time

ever or today

ever

we don't have a thing for second times but we love it Jared's on the phone what's going on

hey man when my little man got diagnosed with cancer it really really made us just like that young lady. Made everybody work together as a team.

So you and your little one's mom are divorced?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so you guys weren't really speaking with each other before your son was diagnosed?

Yeah, you know, we keep it cordial, polite. We do not bicker in front of the kids. That ain't allowed. And you know what? when that happened man if it ain't about parenting and doing good for each other making the kids smile something's wrong because if them kids come first every day every day jared how's your son doing we just we just left the uff today did you oh wow and do you guys do you guys do the

visits to the doctors and stuff.

together yep good for you we do yeah you know her man i tell him i'm like yo dude i pick her up

we're going to okay bye cool it can be buddy you know good for you guys for mom that's great and what's oh yeah what's your little one's name we want to pray for him it's cooper thomas cooper thomas we love you cooper we're you're a fighter my friend i appreciate it all right great day Jared, take care of yourself. Hey, keep staying strong and understand that Cooper's going to one day, he's going to look at you guys and he's going to say thank you for this. And a horrible situation like that is turning into a wonderful situation.

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