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| The "Wife" me, Florida 2004 |
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My husband, Mark, and I met in 2003 and we were married in Las Vegas (on a beautiful ranch) in 2005. Mark is a Chicago area native, but has been living in NC for more than the last 10 years and although he says things like "pop" still instead of "soda" he is pretty adjusted to NC living. I spent my first 10 years in Michigan, but have lived in the Raleigh NC area since the early 90s and I really don't care to be anywhere else. Mark is an amazing photographer, musician, technology geek, and woodworker when he is not wrestling, chasing, playing with, or caring for our two crazy boys. Before the kids we used to love to go camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains or the Outer Banks, but since the kids we have only ventured out one time and that was this past summer on our first family camping trip to the mountains of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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| The "Mom" me, Tennessee 2011 |
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| The "Teacher" me, WSES 2011 with some of my colleagues (Raven, myself, Michele) |
Let me just say that I never intended to be a teacher, but I would not have it any other way now. I graduated college and went directly to a doctoral program for human evolutionary biology, but one of my grad school requirements was to be a teaching assistant which meant I had to teach introductory level classes at the university. I was petrified, horrified and shaking like a leaf as I stood in front of my first class, but from that day on I think I was hooked. After completing my coursework, I came back to NC to write my grant for my research and needed a job to pay the bills so I started teaching high school core science classes. Science was already a passion and now I had found teaching too so I never finished writing my grant and I never started or worked on my dissertation research. Since that time in 2001 I have taught university level classes, high school sciences, middle school exceptional children's resource classes, an elementary school exceptional children's (Serious Emotional Disabilities) classroom, and now an elementary school exceptional children's cross-categorical classroom where I only teach primarily MATH!! My co-teacher, Raven, teaches the language arts curricula (Thank God!).
