- May 4, 2024
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Wade and Chance Schaack. Photos by Jeff Dawsey
The twins' mother Paula Schaack says the older brother Wade was whispering to the younger Chance. Courtesy photos
Wade and Chance took up patrol guard duty on the first day of school at Tomoka Elementary.
Familiar with the biblical story of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis? Jacob steals the birthright, and he later becomes the father of the nation of Israel? While the Bible doesn’t offer us any insight into their childhood, Ormond Pride fraternal twins Wade and Chance Schaack may be able to help us out.
Like Esau, Wade was born first, by three minutes – his birthright claim to go first in everything they do. He also has red hair and loves the outdoors with their father, Brian. Chance, on the other hand, loves to keep company inside with his mother, Paula, learning how to cook. So far, he can only boil hot dogs, which he thinks is “pretty sad,” though he’s only 10 years old.
Similar to the biblical twins, Wade and Chance occasionally get along. Wade likes when Chance is consumed with his laptop, so “he stays out of my way.” But like a good brother, he offers Chance his bed, when nightmares cause Chance to wake him in the middle of the night.
“Then they fight for room, because two dogs also sleep in the bed,” their mother said. Paula Schaack chose to give them unrelated names in fear that they would often get confused when called by a similar name.
Chance says that Wade always protect him, and he wants to learn how to make bacon, eggs, biscuits and other foods like his big brother. But, he wishes Wade wouldn’t steal his friends’ attention at their house with his “dumb comedy.”
The two, however, manage to get along fine when building anything with mechanical Legos, and now they’re delighting in playing football together for the first time.
Say what? “I’m glad I don’t have to look at a mirror, when I look at him.”
CHANCE SCHAACK, on having a fraternal twin
Uncommon comparisons: In order to read the many similarities between Chance and Wade, and Jacob and Esau, read Genesis 25:24-34
