Change of Plans

Shannon received a call this afternoon around 2 PM from his future employer! They have moved up the date for him to start training!! He's going to start on Monday, January 18th!!!!

Here's the backstory... The company is building and in the process of opening up 8 new properties across the United States. In the meantime, they have every available member of the corporate office working at various properties to help cover, etc. Since there are 8 properties opening up, they just hired 8 new property managers and they are trying to coordinate all 8 new property managers to come to Kansas City, MO at the same time to train all at once! They are going to fly out each manager, put them up in a hotel, and give them a rental car while they are there for the week. Wow! Shannon has never had a position that did that for him!!! Shannon said they called again tonight, but he wasn't able to answer the phone (he was taking care of Kyle). He checked his email and they asked him for his shirt size. We are guessing they are giving him a polo shirt with the company logo on it!

As for Shannon's training schedule, they have the following planned... They want him to report to the hotel that he will be working at on Monday, January 18th and stay there during the week to train with the current property manager. For the week of January 25th, they are going to fly him out to Kansas City, MO (along with the other 7 property managers) to train for the entire week! After that week in Kansas City, he will then report back to the property where he will be working and work the next two weeks with the current property manager for more training and learn the job. After Shannon got off the phone with his Director of Operations, he started stressing out a little bit. He's trying to figure out what he needs to pack, what he needs to buy, etc. in order to be ready to start working.

We ended up going shopping at Staples. Shannon bought a day planner and a pack of pads of paper. I bought two plastic file folders with 7 pockets each. I chose the pads of paper because we could both use them: I can use them to write letters to my pen pals and Shannon needed a pad of paper to use while in training! I bought the file folders because I wanted something to organize Kyle's school papers in. I wanted an organized system so when we go to enroll him in preschool, we will have everything I need. I bought the second file folder to keep our important papers in.

Shannon is also worried about school. He is currently in the middle of a class. He plans on asking for a month off from school in order for him to focus on his new job/training. Shannon will probably end up taking my laptop with him for the next month while he is working!

As for me, I am more worried about getting Kyle to and from school. I am hoping we can get him scheduled on a school bus before next week. Otherwise, I will be taking a cab just to get Kyle to school! I am also worried about getting Kyle enrolled at another school, but that won't be until we are ready to move. I don't think we will be moving until the end of February, after he is done with training!