Update...

Hello all. Sorry we missed the NL, thought I would give you all a catch up here. We had a wonderful time in FL for our vacation. Spent some time in Cocoa Beach area with Patrick's family. We stayed with his Dad who lives on a river that goes to the ocean. It was great waking up and sitting on his porch just looking out over the water. We spent some time with his sister, Pam who lives in MI and was visiting during the time we were there. His other sister, Colleen, lives down there near his Dad and we got to hang out with her too. His Mom was also visiting, we did a beach day with her too. Traveled south to NFM to see McQueens, and Mom. We stayed at Mom's new place in Raintree. It was very lovely. My Dad was visiting also, so we got to see him too. Took Flynn mini golfing for the first time, and he had a blast. I posted a picture album on Facebook if you're interested.

Patrick's work has been more and more busy. Before we went on vacation, he traveled to San Diego for an athletic conference. There weren't many Chicago venues there for him to schmooze with, but he did some schmoozing for others around the country and the company as a whole is grateful. Right after our trip, Patrick had to travel to NYC to pick up some supplies to carry out installs for all the contracts he's gotten for ClubCom...a division of Zoom. He's been working very hard since returning with these. The band, Jonny Rumble just finished it's next album. Titled, JR. They are being marketed by this website called RockProper, everyone is really excited about it...and the album is soooooooooooooo good!!

Flynn is doing well, still at Little Fox Day School for now. This year, he gets to go on a field trip every week this summer, so I know he's excited about that. He just loves riding the bus with all his friends. He really enjoys going to school, and hopefully we can continue to send him there.

I got some bad news yesterday on the job front, seems my position, as well as the other 3 people in our department (technology) has been closed. Illinois is going very broke like the rest of the country, and the gov is giving education 24% less money than it did last year. So, there are cuts everywhere in the state. I am one of very many people, not only from this building, but statewide, to loose their education jobs this year. Totally stinks, and I'm still not sure what we're going to do. The Hawks are still playing, so that's great...I'll always have United Center and Bears which will start in August. I may try to get back at the Sox scoreboard for a summer income, but we'll see. Put my name back into the freelance bucket, and see what happens. Keep your fingers crossed for us! I'm confident that we will get through this, because really, we have to.
Love you all!
vanessa