In the beginning, drama!

We started out life with drama. I say we, because I have a twin brother, Michael Patrick Robeck. Yes, my full name is Patrick Michael Robeck. Neither one of us is Irish, go figure. We were born premature and there was concern for our health, mostly Mike’s, as he was smaller than me and needed the incubator. Our parents decided to have us christened right away, and I guess they picked our names fairly quickly, so it was an easy way to come up with two in a hurry.
 I was born 13 minutes earlier than him, so I have bragging rights about being the first-born, but he likes to point out now that I am so much older than he is, (but, also wiser, don’t tell him I said that!). 

        My Dad was in the Army when we were born, stationed in Ft. Riley. I like to say I was born in Manhattan, but, leave a long pause before I say Kansas. People think I am all cosmopolitan and everything, for a few seconds.

            We had another brother James join us a little later and we all lived in the tiny house pictured. We didn’t live there too much longer after he was born, as Dad’s hitch was over. They packed us up and we moved to Minnesota, back to Dad’s childhood home. 

          
  So, you see, we had medical drama and interstate travel, all before the age of two. Mike lives next door to our original homestead, but, as I will relate in other stories, I eventually ended up here in Ohio, enjoying a full 4 seasons, unlike the 2 in Minnesota, winter and winter is coming. 

            See you soon!