Rivergallery's Growth

Nov. 3, 2007

I am From

I am from feeding ducks with day-old-bread, but being scared of the geese. I am from picking strawberries and eating unwashed carrots. I am from a winding coo-coo clock, quarters and wooden toys. I am from fixing pigeons, crazy cats, and blackberries. I am from sand in my teeth, salt in my hair, and swimming in hypothermic water. I am from clam digging, shrimping, fishing at the cove, and hunting for chalk rocks. I am from drawing art galleries on the sidewalk squares, taking black and white exploding flash bulb photos of mud pies on the front stairs. I am from camping at Spruce Run, sliding down the mud on my butt, swinging into the hole with a rope swing, and rafting down to the campsite on an innertube. I am from barbie dolls, secret spies, and creating our own code language. I am from blue and red chips, broken wooden spoons, and soap.

I am from handmade valentines with taffy glued to the construction paper, Easter sundays with patent leather, seeing a green glow in the art room one Patrick's Day. I am from chicken pox on my 12th birthday which always fell on spring break so I didn't get time off of school. I am from Thanksgivings with family, and putting olives on my fingers. I am from Christmases with exciting toys and lots of lights, and Willie Wonka stories told by my dad the night we put the lights up. I am from making Christmas cookies, and thinking homemade rice tomato soup and a garage sale doll named Joy were my best presents.

I am from knowing at 5 I wanted to be baptized because Jesus was, and I wanted to go to heaven, and be God's. I am from getting baptized at 7 and being so happy to know the Lord. I am from getting my first prayer answered in Preschool.

I am from learning to read, write and do math before I entered school. I am from a grandmother and mother who loved to teach, and swearing I would never be a teacher, but realizing as an adult I had a great aptittude for it. And deciding before having children that teaching kids is what I really want to do.

I am from learning to sew over Spring breaks spent with my grandparents in the valley. I am from swimming every day over the summer, and pretending to be a mermaid or a dolphin under the water, till I would get called for lunch. I am from 2nd base, setting and point guard. I am from listening to my mother for academics and my father for work and play.

I am from a mother who taught me to love the Lord, be humble, and imparted to me knowledge and love of learning. I am from a father who taught me how to have fun, work hard, be friendly, be truthful and to love and care for family.

I am from taking 9th grade literature in 7th and 9th grade. I am from wanting to be an investigator, architect, and biologist. I am from starting to major in biology and switching to Sociology. I am from fighting against my body to do what I want/need to in life. I am from 2 car accidents, 2 knee accidents, IBS, asthma, allergies, and Chronic Fatigue. I am from two kids and a husband.

I am from tea, baths, sunsets and beautiful paintings.

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About Me

I am a- Christian wife and Momma of two, artist, daughter, poet, baker, hiker, granddaughter, gardener, homemaker, dog owner, college graduate, sister, smiler, lover, friend, sommersaulter, swinger (as in swings!), aunt, creator, researcher, bather (I love baths), tea drinker, beer brewer, blackberry picker, canner, sewer, quilter, swimmer, riviter see Van's Aircraft RV9-A, and more.

INTERESTS
ART
My most current Art

Art, Poetry with links to my other sites

HOMESCHOOLING
My homeschooling website.

I worked in daycare, as a preschool teacher, and at the elementary school as a special needs assistant, and I have a big heart for children.

WRITING
Poems have been published in a few small publications. My Original Schoolhouse Thesis for my BS degree in Sociology was published and is in the Linfield College Library. I have a group of poems I would like to self publish sometime. Other than that I have a novel that has the plot done but lots of discription is not there, but I am bored with it right now.

HEALTH
homebirthing, vaccinations, homeopathy, herbology, etc.

RESEARCH
I love researching things!

OUTDOORS
Camping, hiking, photography, clam digging, rolling down hills with my sons, bike riding, walking etc. The ocean still feels like home to me, when I get on the beach I feel that is where I belong in the world.

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