I haven't done very well keeping up with this blog, but maybe you'll understand what's been going on with us.....and I promise to try to be more timely with updates.2006......Well, what can I say except it has been a doosey! What started out as promising, soon turned into the worst – job wise for both Gator & me. I was laid off as Sales Operations Mgr. for MasterWorks Décor on 4-14-06 due to the bad financial situation of the company. Then a couple of months later, Gator lost his job at Logistic Leasing because he was charging his laptop while he was working – on trucks – not on the computer. The computer was never on and we have heard some other things that indicate he was “set up”.
So, with only unemployment checks in hand, we turned more of our attention to Gator’s real estate ventures and KYLE!!! As many of you can guess, real estate is very slow in the big city of Union! He’s left Weichert and is now working with Century 21. He’s had a few recent sells, but Gator’s only been in real estate 1 ½ years – it will pick up a little, but not ever enough to be full time for him........unless a miracle happens in Union. You can check out his website: www.gatorhudson.com Gator recently began working for a company in hauling telephone poles. YES, Gator is back driving a semi! He’s home every night & weekends with good pay & benefits – YEAH!! He loves it.
I just started working for Union DSS as an Intake worker. I will have to go to Columbia, SC for three weeks of training in March, so I’m doing a lot of hands on training – in between naps and spider solitaire games – well I am a state worker now, what did you expect?!?!?!? I am learning a lot and hope to eventually be a big help to this community. I will be the person that takes the initial reports, works with the school guidance counselors and police officers, and anything else that is thrown my way. This is a big departure from my previous manufacturing worlds of trim and flowers/trees. Pray that I have the strength to handle the issues that will “be” my job.
On to the “Chunky Monkey” – aka: Kyle. He is great – wild as ever. Had our first trip to the hospital a few months ago from jumping on JoJo’s bed and fell off, bumping his head and ended up with 4 staples to the top/right/back side of the head. Kyle started going to a special preschool class this Fall where he gets 60 min. of speech therapy a week. Kyle is still not talking yet. The school specialists feel he is just delayed and is only on a 1 ½ - 2 year old developmental level. We did see a couple of people in July with
the Developmental Behavioral Pediatric Specialist in Greenville, SC and we have two appointments in January. There has been talk of possible mild autism and ADHD (which I have not doubt he has since Gator is ADD).He is such a happy, playful child – and the biggest tease! Kyle loves school and is very mechanical – has to figure out how everything works. He is very smart and amazes us everyday! Of course he loves to try our patience and is very impatient himself, but we wouldn’t trade him for anything – even though he is THE ENERGIZER BUNNY!
We’ll be celebrating Kyle’s 4th birthday on 12-23-06 with a “Cars” (movie) theme amongst all the Christmas decorations.
We took him to see his 2nd favorite band, the Doodlebops, in November. We don’t want to risk hearing damage to see his #1 group – Rascal Flatts! (don’t know where he picked that up???) ....no Christmas music CD playing with Kyle in the car because it has to be Rascal Flatts!!!!
Please keep us in your prayers as we learn more about Kyle in the coming months, we get more involved in our new jobs, and we re-cover from many, long months of unemployment. (Though it was kinda nice to have the summer off with Kyle!!!)
