People are facinating! It's great to be connected in so many ways to the endeavor of loving, encouraging, helping, and influencing people.

I love and praise an amazing God who would bring me to know Him, love Him, and be involved in the wondrous aspects of His world and His plan. I'm passionate about Him and His Son, Jesus Christ!... My Connections are: Believer, wife, mom, step-mom, "Nana" or "Mana" (my grandmother names!),mother-in-law, daughter, sister, teacher, Dyslexia Coordinator, Bible Study leader, children's ministry, artist and illustrator, teacher trainer, set or theme designer for classroom environments, Lover of Children!!!

about me

Hometown

Wolfe City, Texas

Gender

female

Marital Status

married

Sexual Orientation

straight

Smoker

i do not smoke

Children

proud parent

Education

Post grad

I'd Like to Meet

Chuck Colson...James Dobson...Chuck Swindoll...prophet Daniel and the apostle John (my favorite guys apart from Jesus!)...Abraham Lincoln...Patricia Palacco (children's writer & illustrator who's dyslexic)...Ravi Zacchareus

Interests

Children...artistic endeavors...reading...yardwork (mowing, flowers & plants)...riding my bike...being with my family...grandkids...traveling...cooking...decorating...music...I have a Titanic collection...TEACHING!!!

Music

Christian music (Contemporary, but I still love to sing the Hymns!)...soft jazz...country & western...oldies...big band...classical...I just love music. I could live without a t.v. but not a radio!

Movies

Inspiring movies...comedies...family movies like "It's a Wonderful Life"...love a lot of the children's movies like "Cars"...historical movies that are sometimes very hard to watch like "Schindler's List"...some old movies like "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Little Women" or occassionaly something like "Green Mile"

Television

some t.v. like Hallmark, Food Network, Fox News, comedies like "Everybody Loves Raymond"

Heroes

Life changers! Family members who are committed to living to God's glory, loving and serving their family, raising their children well, and faithful to principles of value! Those whose committment has cost them something like the pastor in Germany during Hitler's regime who held out for Christ(like Deitrich Bonhoeffer) and Corrie Ten Boom...our soldiers and our cultural soldiers who plead our cause in the arena of philosophies!... and Good TEACHERS like many of my friends and peers in the field of dyslexia who go to bat day after day for students who struggle and need good instruction and good advocates!

Books

Bible!!!!! Love the books of Daniel, John, Ephesians, Isaiah, Psalms, fascinated with Revelation, and love so much of the Old Testament as well as Paul's letters, and Dr. Luke's accounts in Acts Everything by... Chuck Colson such as "How Now Shall We Live" James Dobson...Lee Stroebel...Chuck Swindoll...Henry Blackaby's "Experiencing God"...Francine Rivers (love all of her novels)...Brock and Bodie Thoene (love historical fiction and am highly interested in the Jewish connections)...children's book "Thank You, Mr. Falker" and books about Dyslexia like "Overcoming Dyslexia" by authors such as Dr. Sally Shayowitz