Twelve Curious Things About Me...

That's me in the middle flanked by two buddies!

*Some years ago I broke both my right wrist and my left ankle, and while I was convalescing in a wheel chair, the school year started without me.  This is when I began blogging with my class as a way to meet my new students and for them to get to know me.

*I love to dress my dogs in the costumes of the characters we read...Katie's poster of Van Gogh hangs on our classroom wall.

*My childhood nickname was Barbie and my first boyfriend was Ken.

*I live in a menagerie with my dear dog friends Miles and Artie and my cat Simon. 

Grandkids Hailey and Porter and me celebrating the New Year!

*I am a better driver today than I used to be. I once sideswiped my sister's garage while trying to park her car, but when I backed up to get a better aim, I ran over the water meter!

*I don't like heights or snakes.

*I wish that it were stylish to be chubby.

*I love to hear books read aloud and I love to read aloud.  This summer I read David Copperfield aloud in its
entirety.

My son Kevin and me in Shanghai last year.

*I have lived in my current home for almost 28 years, but before that I lived like a gypsy, nesting in four countries throughout  my journeys.

*I don't travel as much as I'd like to anymore, but if I could, I'd spend the summers wandering the globe. (I'd have to travel like Liz Taylor used to with all of her pets loaded onto a beautiful ship!)

*I enjoy long walks, a cup of tea with a good book, and the company of family and friends.

*I understand why grandchildren are called GRANDchildren...because they are.  I have a seven year-old granddaughter Hailey and a three-year old grandson Porter, and they are the absolute BEST.