Lived:
Franklin, West Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, Chamberlain, South Dakota, Fort Thompson, South Dakota, Pierre, South Dakota, St. Paul, Minnesota, New Brighton, Minnesota, Madison, Wisconsin
Work:
Pendleton County Public Schools - Special Education Substitute (2008)
Education:
T.F. Riggs High School - General (1985) , Northern Virginia Community College - Early Childhood Development (2005) , Capital City University Center - Business Administration (1992)
Tagline:
My husband and I have a passion for kids, especially kids that nobody else wants. I have three biological children (who are now grown and made me Grandma), my husband has to adopted sons from before our marriage, and together we are raising two grandkids and 5 adopted children. They range from 7 months to 14 years. 4 teenagers with varying degrees of "special needs",(parents abandoned two, one was in the Foster Care system with 23 placements until we adopted him, one was physically abused and then in a foster home where they adopted all but him), two (ages 10 and 7) with some level of autism (they were locked away in a room for 7 years for the girl and 4 for the boy) and the system wanted to "institutionalize" them, and one precious baby girl born this past February who is a great Niece of a gal I have been friends with for 30 plus yrs.
Bragging Rights:
Have 3 biological, 2 adopted step, and 7 adopted children. :-D I am also a survivor