For now, I live in a small Midwestern community with our four children. My husband lives and works in a suburb of the second largest city in the United States. Our lives are filled with "long distance love," "single parenting teenagers and pre-teens," "frequent flyer miles," "face time" and preparing the family for this huge unknown and terrifying transition. I'm a veteran home school mom and an elementary teacher by trade. I get to combine the best of both of those worlds AND help earn my keep by working for a virtual school. My favorite things in the world are a good book, a fabulous thrift store find, a solitary four-mile run, and the look in a child's eye when he realizes that c-a-t reads 'cat.' Everyone likes me better when I consume coffee first thing in the morning. I fiercely love my faith, my family, my friends, and the Oxford comma.