The ABC's of me

In addition to my family, I thought I would give you some background on me.  I went to Penn State (RIP JoePa) and while I was there, met Andy.  This is a story for another day so I will skip it for now.  After college graduation I took a HUGE leap of faith and moved to Ft. Sill, OK with Andy.  We were not married, not engaged, just living in sin.  After about a year we got engaged.  Less than a year later, broke up and less than a year after that, were engaged again.  Whew… that was a crazy time.  We were young and had no clue what we wanted from life or each other.  We got married the following September and Andy deployed that February.  We did not know this was coming when we got married.  It was a huge change that neither of us was ready for.  Again, this is a future story so we will put it on hold for now.  I am a licensed nursing home administrator and worked in a nursing home or assisted living facility the entire time I was in OK.  Sometime in here I started graduate school at the University of Oklahoma for my Masters in Public Administration with a focus in political science.  I started off wanting my MBA but thought that was not a practical degree for an Army wife so I changed to public admin thinking that I could get a government job that would follow Andy’s career around.  Funny what you think before you actually know what the future holds.  Andy came home, I finished graduate school, he went to Ranger school and we moved to Ft. Drum in the following year. 

While at Ft. Drum we had Addison and Drew and Andy deployed 2 more times.  Up until the point when I had Addison I was working full time at a nursing home in NY.  I took 2 years off between her and Drew but after he was born I was looking for something to do besides parenting.  Andy’s BN commanders wife at the time told me that I was ‘wasting’ my master’s degree and that I should be teaching at the local community college which is what she did.  I had never taught a day in my life and never in a million years thought this was for me.  She convinced me to apply and they hired me the following semester to teach 1 class to see if it was a good fit for me as well as the school.  Drew was only 3 months old at this point so it was a good transition as well.  The following semester I taught 3 classes and I have been doing it ever since.  When we moved to West Point, I started teaching my classes online.  I keep threatening to quit but they keep asking me to come back and I keep saying ‘yes’.  I SWEAR I am not going to work when we move to VA.  I will keep you posted. 

We moved to West Point in April of 2010 and had Allegra in January 2011 and got pregnant again that year.  More on my thoughts of West Point are to come.  I know this was the fast and furious version but I figure if you keep reading this blog that it won’t matter how short this intro was.