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Wife and Mom (capitalized because they are most important to me!), LDS, piano teacher, substitute teacher, volunteer... I love to read, watch tv, attend my chidren's events, sing, listen to music, ride bikes with my husband, swim, garden and scrapbook (although I'm years behind!) I love my family. I'm wonderfully blessed and very grateful. My husband and I bought the house next door to the house I grew up in (yes, my parents still live there!) 3 1/2 years ago and it has been a great thing. I'm the oldest of seven children. I graduated from BYU with a degree in Elementary Education many years ago, but my teaching certificate lapsed while I was raising my children and now I have to recertify (taking the new tests and 6-9 more credit hours of continuing classes). Probably not going to happen at this point. There are more and more demands placed on teachers and a lot of the rewards have disappeared as more emphasis is being placed on testing and No Child Left Behind. Frustrating.

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." .....M. Twain.

"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best"- Henry Van Dyke

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"- Helen Keller

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"- Dolly Parton

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting"- Christopher Morley

"The entire life of a human being depends upon "yes" and "no" uttered two or three times between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five."

"If someone declares that he is able to do everything at sixty that he was able to do at twenty, then he was not doing very much at twenty."

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