Never ending drama

          So I know its been awhile since I’ve added anything, but that’s not for lack of anything exciting happening. I guess the news that surprised us most was that Dr. Best, the superintendent we really liked, ended up resigning in May and checking himself into a mental facility. I’m not making this up, nor is it hearsay. He was stressed and having family issues and apparently having a mental breakdown. Michael jokes that the first guy who gave Michael a head coaching position is now in a mental hospital. Hahaha! So, there isn’t a Superintendent and the school also let go of their Principal, so basically no leadership at the school for a couple of months. Poor Michael ended up taking over many things that he shouldn’t have had on his plate. Not only did the administration get let go, but 3 of Michael’s coaches left as well. For about a month, Michael was the only coach for the Jr. High and Sr. High teams. Right before we left for our vacation the school hired a new superintendent and Michael was able to hire a new coach.        
          Michael really wanted to hire a really good black coach because of a town that’s primarily black, at the time they had no black representation on the coaching staff or the administration. He got what he wanted and hired a coach named Ed Duncan who graduated from Arkansas Tech a few years before us and was an All American on the football team. He’s a great guy and we are so thankful to have him. So now there are two coaches on staff. The other guy that gets the stipend for football hasn’t been helping at all because he is a sickly thing. His name is Maine and he’s worked a total of 3 days this summer because he’s had an eye infection that spread to his whole body, a series of stress tests and finally a heart attack. At this point Michael said he would rather the guy just get out of coaching because it’s more of headache than anything. I feel so bad for Michael because he wakes up at 5:30 to go to the field and doesn’t get home sometimes until 9:00. Not only that, but he’s in the heat constantly, either outside with the boys, mowing or painting the fields, or in the field house, which isn’t air-conditioned. Needless to say I do a lot of laundry. The boy comes home from lunch drenched, changes, comes home for dinner, changes, and then comes home for good, and changes again. He’s working so hard, but he does really enjoy the fact that it’s his program. I am very proud of him

          We did get to squeeze in a vacation to Kaui’i, Hawaii and had a blast. It’s where we went on our honeymoon. Living apart for 2 ½ months made Michael really sentimental, so he wanted to go back this summer. Everything was great, however, when we returned to our house we discovered that we were broken into. We figure it was kids because they didn’t take some things that most adults would have. They basically ransacked our house, which really sucked since we had just gotten everything put up from moving, and they took our Wii, our DVDs, our camera, our Blue ray player and some of my jewelry. So they bypassed our new Mac computer our 2 nice TV’s etc, and thankfully didn’t break anything. It could have been so much worse. The man we’re renting the house from decided to get our roof replaced while we were gone, so we suspect that one of the roofers knew we were on vacation and somehow spread the word. 

          Anyway, since my Internet is up and running I’m going to start updating this more often. Love and miss yall.