I grew up in Armada, Michigan. I graduated from Michigan State University (the #1 ranked College of Education in the country!) I did my teacher internship in a second grade class in Mt. Clemens.
When I married my husband, Brad, he was in the Marine Corps and I moved to 29 Palms, California. After being there for about a year and a half, we got stationed at Cherry Point, NC. We went from the middle of the Mojave Desert to the Crystal Coast! I taught 1st grade there for almost 3 years.
Brad and I have been married for 6 years. Our daughter Marcella (Marci) was born in 2016 and that is when we decided we wanted to be closer to our families and moved back to Michigan! We have one dog, Route, who we got on our trip from Michigan to California at an animal shelter along Route 66.