About Me

 [[Autobiography:  The Abridged Version]] I am a mother of three sweet and rambunctious boys, wife to one saint of a husband, and teacher of history who is fast approaching the age of 30.  I try not to regret growing older because it is a heck of a lot better than the alternative.  I had my first child at the age of 15, and the second only two years later.  I quit school in my senior year and got a G.E.D. from the local technical school.  While working on a diploma from that school, I ran across an old high school teacher with whom I was very close.  She was surprised and saddened to see me at the tech school and urged me to attend college.  That was my aha! moment.  Soon after graduation, I enrolled in my local junior college and two years later, I had an Associate's degree.  I had a hard time keeping up my grades while working full time on the swing shift as a call center supervisor AND being a single mother to two kids (one of whom is disabled).  I lived alone with the boys in a two bedroom apartment until I bought my first house at only 19 years old.  While working on that degree, I met my future husband.  Our relationship progressed quickly and we co-habitated while I worked on my Bachelor's degree.  With his support, I was able to maintain a 4.0 in my junior and senior years in college.  On the celebratory cruise we took upon my graduation, he asked me to be his wife.  I obliged.  Next I began work on a Master's degree in history, which took me three years, but I finally finished it (with a thesis!).  I've held various jobs until recently, when I accepted a position as a high school social studies teacher.  That brings me to the present.  I'm never content to stay where I am educationally, and after thinking I had all of my educational plans worked out, I'm back at a crossroads but I'm confident I can work it out.  My dream of being a professor of African-American history may not come to fruition, but sometimes life gets in the way. 

People are always so amazed at how far I've come, though I think I could have gone a lot farther and done a lot more. Anyway, I am not your average teen mom, which is sort of what I hope to convey in this blog.