June 5, 2007

• I was tagged by cltgrace.  My information isn’t nearly as impressive or interesting as hers, but I enjoyed doing this.  Thanks for including me. 
  

  
  The rules are: People
  who are tagged start by thinking about 7 random facts/habits about
  themselves. Each player then must write about those seven things on
  their blog, as well as include these rules. Players then need to choose
  7 people to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to leave each person
  a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.

  I choose: Rebecca_Brite, AmericanGuera, mimiwi, clarechiara, AggieDimitri, FritzlerMama, LoneWolfEND

  So the little known facts:

  1. Nick and I, with a hyperactive three year old and two dogs, once lived in a volkswagen van for three months in the Colorado mountains in the ’70s.  We moved from the van to a tepee at which point I gave up and left.  We obviously made up since we are still together, but one stipulation was that I had a house! We’ve lived in a house ever since!

  2. Both of my grandmothers graduated from college around the turn of the century (1800 to 1900).  Both had teaching certificates. My mother, two aunts and two of my three sisters all have or had degrees in education and were teachers at some point.  I swore that I would never be a teacher.  In 1994, forty-six years old, I finally got my teacher’s degree.  I absolutely love it.  Some things are destined to be, I guess.

  3. When my children were little, I baked most of our bread.  I made 7 loaves at a time.  We ate one immediately, hot out of the oven. I also had a couple of milk goats, 12 to 50 chickens for eggs and meat and canned 300 to 400 quarts of fruits and vegetables every fall. 
  

  4. When we first got together, Nick and I made a deal that I would stay home with our kids until the youngest one was in school.  Then I would only work while they were at school.  So when our oldest was six and in kindergarten, we had another.  When she was three, we had another.  When he was 5, just before kindergarten, we had our last.  I stayed home for 17 years before our youngest went to school.  She came with me when she was four years old, and I started working as a teacher’s aide. That resulted in my becoming a teacher at their school. 
  

  5. My daughter says this is interesting.  Whenever I say I am going to clean the house, I go outside and burn brush, weed the garden or mow the lawn.  Needless to say, our house if often a mess, but at the end of the day, I smell like smoke, grass or dirt and am very happy!!

  6. When one son was playing basketball in high school, we didn’t have a camera for two years.  Ever since, I take dozens of pictures at every game and give copies to the parents.  I know what it is like not to have pictures of a special time.
  

  7. At my school most people think I am strict and inflexible, but inside, I struggle every time I have to discipline a student and I often secretly cry over their hurts and disappointments.  
  

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