I suppose I should start by introducing you to the family. Debbie & I have three wonderful adopted boys, Robbie, Jimmy, and Billy. We also have four dogs and two cats, as you might have guessed from the url. The dogs are Maggie (an 8-year old Golden Retriever), Kayla (a 6-year old mutt-i-gree), Cooper (a 3-year old Vizsla), and Penny (a 2-year old Beagle). The cats are both ordinary housecats, named Twiggy and Panther.
I’m writing this blog, really as a journal, to tell you about my life as a working mother in Canton, OH. I work for American Electric Power, a large electric utility company, as a credit dispatching supervisor. I also have my own small business (Professional Business Associates). So naturally, I decided I needed to take on something else, and decided to start this blog.
All of this is only possible because I have a FABULOUS wife, who does virtually everything at the house while I am working. She is retired from making pretzels at the local Frito-Lay plant. She cooks, cleans, cares for the animals, and in general, keeps our home life running.
This isn’t to say I’m lazy. In fact, I work about 12 hours a day. My “day job” (meaning it’s the one that pays the mortgage) takes up about 8 hours every day. Then I come home and work on my small business. My focus is on business support services. Most of what I do is ghost-writing, where I help other people put their thoughts down in a book or online. My biggest client is doggies.com, where I write the blog and many of the articles.
But this blog won’t really be about work. It’s about the home front. You see, Debbie and I adopted three boys after fostering more than 30 children. The boys are the light of our lives, but they all have problems because of the environment in which they were born. So, if you are interested in what happens in a home with three troubled boys, four dogs, and two cats, you might want to subscribe to this blog. I hope to tell you how we manage all of the activity, as well as to give you a little insight into time management, behavior management, and the fun that results when you throw all of this together!
Welcome to the chaos that is my life!!
