I am a mom to FIVE boys, ages 19, 16, 13, 12, and 3.  What can I say….#5 was definitely a surprise! I’m a teacher, currently substituting because of our most adorable surprise. 

I started substitute teaching in 2000.  I got my teaching credential in 2001, and in August of that year I started my first year with a class full of 6th graders.  I taught 6th grade for seven years.  Then I was moved to 5th grade.  I only spent a year in 5th because I then went on leave for two years to have babies #3 and 4.  When I came back in 2011, things had changed!  It was hard getting back into the swing of things.  I was at a different school, I was teaching a grade I had never taught, and I now had 4 boys to come home to.  Luckily, I spent the next nine years teaching with the most amazing women, and ended up loving teaching 3rd grade!  In 2019 we got the surprise of a lifetime.  We found out we were having baby boy #5.  He arrived 3 weeks before the world shut down in March 2020.  At the end of 2020 we made the big decision to move our family to a different state.  I stay home mostly with my youngest, but I also substitute teach in grades K-6.