Mickey 6 months old. Living at quarry in Sylacauga.
Mickey was a little over 2 years old when I started wanting another baby. I got pregnant with Allen in May of 1983. We tried to trade the dbl wide but owed too much so we bought a 14x80 single wide with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths and rented out the dbl wide. Allen was born in Feb 1984.
Mickey on swing in front of new mobile home around the time I was pregnant with Allen or shortly after he was born.
Mickey 26 months Allen 2 weeks old (Feb 1984)
Allen 4 months old (June 1984)
Mickey 2-1/2 yrs, Allen 6 months old
Mickey 3 yrs Allen 1 year
Mickey gave himself and Allen a hair cut on this day. Mickey was 3-1/2 and Allen was 18mths.
Sometime early in 1985 I was having a tupperware party when Tim came home unexpectedly. He was in rare form. He went straight to the bedroom and did not speak to any of our friends. After they all left he informed me that the quarry was closing the finishing plant. He did not have a job and since we were living on company land we had to move. Since his job was the only source of income we had we were devastated.
Mickey 4 yrs Allen 2 yrs Just before move to Georgia
Allen's favorite place to hide. Kitchen cabinet between stove and refrigerator.
Several companies called in in the next few weeks and he decided on a job in Douglasville Ga. Dixie Marble company wanted him to open a finishing plant for them in the Atlanta area. They agreed to move us to a mobile home park there in Douglasville. One problem solved. A place to live. We moved just after my mom was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer and began her chemo treatments.
We settled in Douglasville. I got a job at Winn Dixie Deli on Thorton Road just across from where Tim opened up the finishing plant for Dixie Stone. That spring we bought season tickets to Six Flags (it was about $12.00/per person per day or $24.00/per person for a season pass). We scraped up the money and bought 4 season passes. There was not a day that went by that we did not carry the boys to Six Flags. By the end of summer I had taken a part time job at the area church daycare beside Annet Winn elementary school. This was where Mickey was going to start kindergarden and I had to have a job and Allen had to have a care giver. I did not know or trust anyone in Ga. to keep him so I quit my job at Winn-Dixie and got a job at the daycare. That was short lived thank the Lord, because Allen screamed everyday for me from the time I left him in his class until I was summoned by the director to his class. Mickey was liking his new kindergarden.
John and Nate came for a couple of week that summer and went to six flags with us.
Allen at Six Flags in line to his favorite ride (the MOMO. Tim, John, Nate, and Mickey are somewhere riding the big rides.
Then Tim was recruited to West Palm Beach Florida to start another finishing plant for another company. They did not want to move a mobile home, so they found us a rental home in Palm Beach Gardens. They flew Tim to West Palm Beach. He picked up a company flat bed truck and we put everything we could possibly carry onto that truck and moved to Florida. That was the longes trip of my life... 14 hours with a 5 year old and a 3 year old in a small 14foot flat bed truck. This was in the fall of 1987. We got settled in and enrolled Mickey in Dwight D Esienhower elementry school. It was just a few blocks from the house so Mickey, Allen, and I walked every morning and every evening.
Mickey and Allen playing in the yard in WPB Fl.
My Mom started doing very bad so Tim was having to drive me and the boys home just about every weekend and back before Monday for him to go to work and Mickey to go to school. It was mid Oct 1987 when we got the news that she was not going to make it. I talked to Mickey's school and told them the situation. They gave me a couple of weeks worth of school work for him and told me to mail it back to them everyweek. Tim Carried me and the boys home to be with Mom the last few weeks of her life. She passed away November 16th 1987.
We buried her on Mickey's 6th birthday 11-19-1987. We delayed his birthday celebration until we returned to WPB. We gathered his friends at school for his birthday celebration.
Mickey and Allen loved playing in the sand and picking fruit from the fruit trees by the canal. The problems with that was there was an Alligator that lived in that canal.
Here are a few pics of them in WPB shortly after we returned from the extended visit to Alabama. Mickey went back to School and all was well.
Christmas day WPB Fl.
In January 1988 my Dad and sister came to WPB to visit us. While dad was there he looked up an old friend of Paul and Scott's that was having a difficult time. They ended up moving in with us so we could share expenses. We had just recently lost everything we had and it sounded like a good idea. That little house got smaller and smaller. We were all miserable. By April, we were all ready to move back to Alabama. So we did. Tim's Mom found an old house on Deloach road that a neighbor said we move into and fix up instead of paying rent. We agreed and moved back to Alabama.
Mickey was transfered to Fayetteville school Kindergarden for the last 2 weeks of that year.
This is a picture of Mickey's kindergarden graduation ice cream celebration at Fayetteville
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