About Me...

Where should I begin? I have always had an interest in writing and for my first post, let me begin by telling you a little about myself. I am married to a wonderful husband of almost 13 years. We have two beautiful children. We have a daughter whose name is Michalla and she is 10 years old. We have a son whose name is Garron and he is 7 years old. My husband, Gary, works for YKK AP America. He is a Machinist II in lead position on evening shift. I own and operate a family home daycare/preschool. I have been in the field of child care for a majority of my life, but have only been teaching preschoolers in my home for about 6 years now. I really enjoy working with children and they have become a major part of my life. Each child, including my own, are so unique in their own way. Every child that comes into my care leaves a permanent mark on my heart. On the weekends, my husband, our children, and I enjoy spending time together. We learn so much from one another! We have a very small mini farm and the reason I say this is because we are only sitting on a little over a half acre with several small farm animals. We have chickens and ducks. Pretty soon we will be getting a couple of kids/goats/nannies. These animals stay outside of course! We also have a few inside animals which include two birds, a parakeet, and a cockatiel. We named our parakeet, Coconut and we named our cockatiel, Silver. We also have two large fish aquariums that contain mostly goldfish and a couple of large sucker fish. The other member of our little family of animals and he is really a big part of our family is our rat terrier whose name is Captain Jack. Yes, we named him after the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow. Maybe sometime soon I will post pictures of him and some videos and you can really see why this name is also a perfect fit! We didn't name our chickens except for one rooster we call Spike. He is a frizzled bantam and he looks like he stuck his beak into a light socket because his feathers are curled up and stick straight out. We did name our ducks. We have five white Pekin ducks whose names are Elvis, Priscilla, Hewey, Dewey, and Lewey. Priscilla has been laying on some eggs and Elvis gaurds the duck house. We are not sure if she will actually sit long enough to hatch the eggs because Pekin ducks do not usually hatch their own eggs. They have to be incubated. That is how we got Hewey, Dewey, and Lewey. But since Priscilla is sitting, we thought we would wait and see what happens. We stay very busy most of the time. I have to make time to do things for me and I don't say that lightly. My daycare/preschool takes up a lot of my time. Balancing my work, being a wife, a mother, and home maker takes a lot of effort. But occasionally I do have to let something go so that I can get my sanity back. This is about all I have time to type for right now but I plan to post again really soon. If you have any questions or would like to know more about me, please don't hesitate to ask! Thanks for visiting!