Mickey and Allen the early years

Shortly after I got pregnant with Mickey we sold the old mobile home and bought a new one( a small double wide with 2 bedrooms and one bath). We moved onto company land since Tim was a foreman.

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

Early Married Life

I left off the stories at marrying my buddy Tim. We got married spring 1979 during AEA week my junior year. I was 16 and Tim was 19. Below is a copy of our wedding invitation and a copy of our vows that my dad typed on his manual typewritter.














We went to Birmingham in Tim's Cutlass Supreme Oldsmobile




Tim was a draftsman at Moretta Harrah Marble Quarry. We bought a second hand single wide mobile home (12x60). This is a copy of pay stub the week we married.




Below was my todo list my first week as Mrs. Timothy Green. (I was a very busy girl)HAHA.

Tim got a job in the finishing plant of the marble quarry and made plant foreman by age 22. I wanted a baby as soon as I graduated June 1980. I went to work at Russell Mills sewing plant that same month. My job was sewing sleeves in Tshirts. I got pregnant with Mickey in Feb. 1981 and got fired for low production sometime in May the same year. No one would hire me because I was pregnant so I drawed unemployment until after Mickey was born Nov. 1981. We decided for me to just stay home and be a housewife and mother. We did not have anything to speak of material wise but we loved each other and we loved our little Mickey.

Georgia Aquarium

Saturday morning we ate at the hotel restaurant and went to the Georgia Aquarium. It is definitely HUGE, and so are the crowds!! The automated ticket kiois is the way to buy tickets. The line for ticket booths was wrapped around like a snake coiled up. We bought our tickets and were in the building before the ticket line moved 10 feet.

I had read the reviews online prior to going so we knew it was going to be crowded. The problem is people are just plain rude. If everyone waits their turn one can see everything. However, this was NOT the case.




We would wait to see a certain fish and as soon as the previous guest would move,someone would push us and go before us. It was so loud that Tim and I could not even talk about anything (he has a great knowledge of aquatic life and I love to listen to him tell about a certain type of fish and what they do etc...) I got sooooo frustrated I just started snapping pictures so I could enjoy the sights later I took approximately 200 pictures in 2 hours. No I will not post them all but I will post a few of the better of them.





Tim tried several times to desperately take a picture of me and I of him and people would push through us or around us and mess up the picture. These are horrible but we did manage to snap a couple that were not completely blurred.











It rained all day and we decided we did not want to sit in a rainy stadium and chance a long delay or possibly even being rained out soooo we decided to go back to the hotel and watch the ball game from there. But first, we toured the old places we use to live, work, and play. We were amazed how much it had all changed since 1987. Brought back a lot of memories of the boys and our year at Six Flags with them (literally)there was not a day that year we did not go with them if it was open. We reminisced about how we thought back then that we HAD to show them a good time and make memories for them. We laughed because we had a conversation with Mickey the other day and he remembers very little about that whole year and the following year in West Palm Beach. I will Blog about their childhood and the memories I have and wanted for them later.



Anyway, when we got back to the hotel... lightning had struck the cable station and the cable and internet was out. We wandered around a bit and then decided we would check out and go home. The guy at the front desk told us we could not check out because the internet was down. Tim told the guy that he might not look like much but he knew there was no way he could make him stay against his will. The man laughed and said you are free to go but I can not check you out until internet is back up. Tim asked him if we needed to pay him anything, he said no it is already charged to your card. Soooo, we left. It was very funny. We got home in time to see the Braves game 4th inning in the comfort of our own home.

Braves Ball Game

Tim picked me up from work yesterday and we headed to Atlanta. We checked in a hotel, dropped off our overnight bag, and went to the Braves vs LA Dodgers ballgame.

We were in the upper deck (way up high) but the tickets were free from the Homedepot give away. We have tickets for tonight too from the same giveaway.

We thought about upgrading our tickets until we found out they would be 40.00 each.

Turns out we had the best seats after all. It started raining in the 5th inning and the folks in the 40.00 seats starting moving to the upper deck with us (we were under an awning :), thanks Homedepot!


We enjoyed the game (Braves won again 1-0).

Remodeling project

At the risk of sounding like a broken record... We are wrapping up the project...

Yesterday we finished everything we could finish. The stone business has had an instant charge. We can not finish the windows or vanity and sink until another lul in business. Al says paying customers have to go first then charity :). I will work on the rest of the house until then. As promised here are the pictures. There is nothing else to do until the stone is ready.























OK I realize that most of you will think I have lost my mind. I made a necklace holder because I could not find one that worked for me. I made it out of leftover pvc water pipe and spray painted it with primer Tim had in the shop. As a finishing touch I put my antique male and female urinal as decoration at the base of it. No one else would have it but I like it.

Update on Papaw and remodeling project

The procedure Tim received worked. Tim has had a great deal of relief. We rested most of the week after work but Tim finished the shoe closet, linen closet, and baseboard around the new bathroom. He connected the water to the tub and the drain pipe but this morning the drain started leaking slightly. So we will resume working on that tomorrow.
We must finish trimming the windows, hang mirrors, touch up paint, install granite and sink then accessorizing. The original bath room still needs baseboards, touch up paint, and trim. We can see light at the end of the tunnel :)
Then I can get the house back in order and clean. I feel like we have been living in a construction zone for months now.

We visited a church in our community "New Day Ministries" we enjoyed worshiping with fellow Christians. We plan on going back tonight.