Who are Daddy, Papa and the Twins?
We are two guys (Matt/Daddy and Greg/Papa) living in Sydney with our gorgeous, noisy and slightly crazy 9-year-old twin daughters, Verity and Delilah (born through surrogacy in 2014). We love spending time with the Twiglets and boring the world with photos, videos, random blog posts and anything else we think someone may look at (and be completely uninterested in)..
Originally from Adelaide (Australia) but have been living in Europe semi-permanently (some would say permanently) since 1999 (COVID had other plans though). It was supposed to be a short-term gig but somehow it ended up being way longer than planned.
The Twiglets were born in La Jolla (California, USA), conceived via IVF and are currently at school in Sydney.
In March of 2020 Sydney became our home, the world was starting to go crazy, no one knew what COVID was, and the majority of the world had not experienced a lockdown or even used the term before.
Our life is filled with organised chaos but we wouldn’t change it for the world (ok, maybe I would change a few things and a few more after I had changed though things).
If you are obsessed with watching flying metal tubes land, take off, move, sort of move, or even sit still; then there may be something here for you :) Just lots of videos of me geeking out over one of my obsessions (passions), very large things that fly!
With multiple used face masks and two very excited little girls, we were escorted off the A350 by officials dressed as astronauts. We were greeted at Sydney’s International Airport by two very excited Grandparents and 14 days in isolation. That’s when it hit me, in 24 hours our life had changed forever. It was awful but it was awful for everyone everywhere!
I have felt a sadness I have never experienced before, I have been paralysed by grief and drowning in tears. My heart is heavy and I am lost, I just don’t know what to do. A month has passed and it feels like yesterday, I want to pick up the phone and hear her voice but I know she won't answer.
💜 It is with great sadness and a very heavy heart, that we announce that Mum (Heather Anne Fopp née McDonald) passed away peacefully on Saturday night (2.7.2022) in North Adelaide 💜
Having never been to The Hamptons, I make this observation purely from bad TV shows and the Breakfast Point marketing material. Located on Sydney Harbour (? - this is questionable) and only a ferry ride from Sydney CBD, Breakfast Point is a waterfront oasis hiding from a chaotic world.
I don’t know where this post is coming from or what I am trying to achieve. I’m running on no gas, I’m super tired and scared of what the immediate future holds. I may look ok on the outside but the inside is not dissimilar to a bomb waiting to explode. I know this is all cryptic, it’s not intentionally a cryptic style Facebook post.
So Saturday morning at 0730 we headed to the emergency pediatrician. By this stage, there was quite a bit of yellow gunk coming out of her ear which was all through her hair and over her bed, she was also complaining it was sore. The pediatrician did a swab, put her on a strong course of antibiotics and told us to come back tomorrow.
We’ve missed so many Christmas’s, birthdays, weddings, arrivals of nephews, anniversaries, saying final goodbyes and the list just goes on. At what point do you go “That’s enough, we need to go home?”, how do you make that decision when you have two 5 year olds…
What/If is a neo-noir thriller that explores the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things. Each season will tackle a different morality tale inspired by culturally consequential source…
Greencity is still rather grey, although as spring arrives some of the trees are getting leaves and things are getting greener. Maybe with time they’ll plant some lawn. Lol. The apartment is good though and is exactly what we wanted.
If I could have one wish in the world, that would be to see you. I would do anything to give you a hug, buy you lunch, laugh with you, thank you for all the things I should have thanked you for, and most importantly tell you that ‘I Love You’.
I often wonder how it could possibly be more than 7 months since we lost you. It feels like only yesterday when a stranger rang with news that would shatter my world but it feels like an eternity since I heard you answer the phone with ‘Hello Love’.
It’s the 25th of November today and you know what that means, it’s Christmas decoration time in our house 🎄 It doesn’t feel right though; carols should be playing, champagne should be flowing and I should be on the phone with you.
This week has been a rollercoaster, a rollercoaster of emotions! I don’t know why, it’s just been hard, really hard. I’m tired, coming down from the trip to the UK, I don’t know why; it’s just been one of those weeks.
You have no idea how much I wish I was sitting with you at Oakden right now. You in your chair, playing on your iPad; me on the sofa, playing on my phone. We could talk if we wanted to but otherwise happy in each other’s company.
It’s been six weeks and one day since we last spoke and I would do anything to chat with you right now. Words cannot describe how much I miss you.
These two extremes had the effect of tearing me half. It was impossible to be in both places at once. It was impractical to spend too much time with Delilah (the ICU is a busy place, the nurses made us very, very welcome, but I never stopped feeling like I was in the way).
Immediately after their birth, there was a flurry of activity and emotions so diverse and intense, that it’s really hard to see through them to document what exactly I was feeling. I had just been told by the Birth Teams that the babies were perfect in every way.
Within a few short moments, though. The door was opened and I was summoned in, and ushered to a small stool right next to Natasha. At this stage, the poor woman had disappeared into the heart of a surgical machine by the looks of it.
This name was actually added to our short-list by Matt. I’m not entirely sure where he heard it, but I suspect it might be one of his nonsense Television shows that he fills his downtime with, as that’s certainly where he got the other names he suggested.
Evelyn is another old name (are you sensing a theme, here?) dating back centuries and believed to be originally French in origin (Aveline). There is some debate about the meaning, whether it was ‘little bird’, or ‘radiance’ or ‘life’ but we’ll take it whatever.
It’s hard to describe how I’ve been feeling over the last week or so. I had a moment of giddy excitement when we got the call from San Diego last Friday that told us we should come over early. That had me smiling like an idiot for a few hours.
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