Oh, and one more thing. It has never been my intention to stay a one truck wonder. I never planned on my son working for me ... robbing me of the ability of selling my business one day ... but I always planned to ramp things back up at some point and build something to sell. Provided I lived long enough.
My son deciding to come to work for me was not a huge negative for me. In fact, it is a huge POSITIVE ... for ME, but I really really wanted more for him in life. What child with any ounce of sense wants to sling pig slop all day? Since he is as stupid as his Dad, it is probably a good fit for the boy. His coming to work with me has forced me to make some business decisions that I would otherwise have allowed to sit on the back burner for another 5 year period.
But you know? I have always felt that God works things out for the best, if we allow Him to, and there is a reason my boy is with me at this moment. I hope this is NOT THE CASE, but if my wifes health continues to worsen, I may find myself in a situation that requires me to spend more time napping at home, instead of the office. So, I am teaching the boy how to do the production (and he is really good at it, and my old lady customers love him) and I can already depend on him to do much of what I do.
There's a reason for everything.
To answer your questions regarding my wife let me first say, she is a very private person. So, those of you who know her (there are a hand full here who do), please don't ask her about it. She had a heart attach last year. While the heart attack itself was not THAT big of a problem, the side effects of it have continued to worsen. She is at the point to where more surgery is pending. Along about the same time, she came down with a currently non-diagnosed colon disease which has made life hell for her. She is losing weight and has no energy. She is seeing a specialist who is well known and I think she will eventually improve, but there is some reason to believe, from what they are saying, that this is a condition that she will have to live with from now on.
She is scared to go anywhere by herself now, and that is sad. There was nothing she enjoyed more in life than to get away from me and spend time at the beach all by herself during the week and have me come down on weekends and do stuff she needed me to do for her .... so I could leave on Sunday and she could be alone the next week. All that has ended now.
My daughters are helping with that to some degree, especially my oldest who has my grandchildren. My youngest, who is still in college helps when she can. They both told me just last night that they plan on taking their Mom down to Gulf Shores for a month this spring ... with the grandchildren ... which they both are certain will cheer their Mom up.
I will for about two days ...
Hard ass ^^^
