ABOUT ME 

I grew up in Texas a typical kid with a mom and a dad. We moved around a lot in the Dallas area but at one point, I got to spend a year living at a summer camp in east Texas. That was the best year of my life! I could be outside all day riding horses, hiking, canoeing, swimming, or bothering the camp counselors. Life was great that year, 5^th grade, although it didn’t last. My family moved back to Texas and my parents divorced. Life got a little rough. My self-esteem went way down and I had a hard time making friends. My first year of jr. high, 7^th grade, I was so desperate for friends that I started hanging out with the wrong crowd. I did a lot of things I deeply regret between 7^th and 12th grade. I tell you this so that you know that I care about you and the direction in which you steer your life. After the things that I went through in those years, I am blessed to be here and I want you to make better choices for yourself than I did. It won’t be easy to get things by me because I have been there and done that. So, after putting away my jr. high and high school years I went to college. I wanted to do something fun and interesting that would allow me to travel and experience the world. I chose to get a degree in home furnishings merchandising so that I could be a buyer for a large corporate empire. After getting married and having children, my priorities changed a little. On the other hand, maybe they changed a lot. I have stayed home for the last 6 years working part time to raise my children and thought I would home school my daughter. I have done lots of research on curriculum and teaching methods and wanted to purchase an integrated learning style of curriculum for my daughter and eventually my son. About a year after contemplating whether home school was the way our family wanted go, I came to the decision that it was not the best choice for our family. I needed to work full time. At first, I was a little reluctant because I didn’t want to go into the corporate world and leave my kids for weeks at a time for something that to me would have been a job not a career, but then a neighbor and friend said why don’t you become a teacher. A light bulb went on in my head and I thought “ya, why don’t I become a teacher.” Since that time I have pursued doing whatever needed to be done to get my teaching certificate. I took a math class that I needed to qualify to teach 4-8^th grades, enrolled in iteach Texas and completed all the required elements, and took the state of Texas 4-8 content area exam. I am really excited and cannot wait to travel to road to success. I want to be one of those teachers that other teachers come to for advice. I want to someday see my students come back and tell me how my class inspired them to be who they are today. Woo hoo; Let’s get after it!