Story of my life in 250 words

Welcome to "Blog Everyday in month of May!" Very excited to join Jenni in this challenge. You should join in also!

I was born late summer in Alexandria Virginia to my Mom (from maine) and Dad (from virginia.) Apparently I was precocious and talked early.  I didn't crawl just went from scooting to walking.  I wanted to be a teacher or solid gold dancer before entering school.  My sister was born! I didn't really love her then and asked my parents to return her, but man I love her now! I struggled in school.  I had to go see a visual doctor to learn how to tie my shoe, skip, bounce a ball and other things.  I loved learning and reading, but enjoyed it on my "own" terms (still do!) I used to create recipe cards in my room with colored pencils and fell right in love with art.  Middle school was painful- but it's an awkward time for everyone.  I found my stride with yearbook and my love for design and journalism was born. Off to high school. Creative writing and journalism dominated my time.  I loved dance and singing (secretly wanted to sing on Broadway- still do!) but couldn't seem to get a break into high school dancing or singing.  So I stuck with journalism and eventually became editor-in-cheif of my award winning high school paper.

This is me & john in high school!

I liked highschool, but was ready to leave.  I didn't apply for college, because I didn't know what I wanted to do or be so I stayed at home- worked at a local record store (so freaking awesome) and went to community college.  I did really well in community college and focused a good bit of my time on my English class and designing store displays.  Really wanted to go to art school, but stuck with a liberal arts school and transfered to College of Charleston- didn't love it.  I found a really good job as a help desk support specialist and moved back to Washington, DC. I dated, broke-up, dated, got promoted, dated, made a sorta bad decision to get married, moved to a new job, traveled around the world, lost my Dad to alcoholism, got promoted to IT Manager with a global organization, got divorced and traveled some more. Then I reconnected with my now husband a high school friend and moved to Richmond, VA to be with him (I also got a really good job there.) After awhile, I wanted to move back to Charleston so we did in 2008.  We bought a house- I FINALLY went to art school while working full time as a Senior System Engineer (still am.) I graduated cum laude- got married, had a baby E and now....here I am.

engagement picture

First family photo

OK! So I bet that was more than 250 words, but it was a good exercise to try and tell my life story with limited space. If you join in the challenge please let me know!