I am married to the love of my life and have three tremendous blessings: a first grader, a preschooler, and our newest addition.
I have had many amazing opportunities in my life, including having been homeschooled myself from the 2nd grade on through high school (Thanks Mom!). I also had the opportunity to get my Bachelors degree in writing and then work both full-time on college faculty for a few years, as well as part-time for A Beka Book Publishing. Right now, I’m enjoying the opportunity to be at home and begin the homeschool adventure with my children.
Fifteen Random Things about me…
- I am a “google-guru.” I love searching on Google, and I am obsessed with finding the answer to every question.
- I am also an organization-nut. No, don’t read into that. I did not say that I was organized, but rather that I like to look organized. I love file folders, notebooks, planners, anything that looks like organization.
- Journals are another love affair–gotta’ love a new notebook with all of those clean, empty lines. Must be the writer in me.
- I’m trying hard to kick a sugar addiction. The hardest part is all the sugar I like to have in my coffee—nearly ¼ of a cup. Yeah, it’s bad.
- I love to cook, hate to bake. I mean, I would rather make a whole meal than tackle a dessert. (Odd, huh? Especially considering my sugar addiction.)
- My #1 enemy to meal prep is forgetting to defrost what’s for dinner. If it won’t thaw in the microwave, it may take me months to get to that meal.
- I love to diagram sentences.
- I am totally intimidated by math.
- My husband and I enjoy watching classic black and white films.
- Speaking of my husband, we were married 6 months and one day after our first date (and I had only met him a week previous to that first date). But as far as short engagements go, my sister-in-law has me beat. She was engaged to my brother for a week.
- My favorite fiction books are Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.
- I don’t really like reading fiction. I’m way too critical. Or if I find a good one, I become obsessed and can’t break free until the story is over.
- I do like to read the end of a story first. And I also like to know how a movie is going to end. Only then do I feel that I can actually relax and enjoy the rest of the plot.
- Half full or half empty? Definitely half full. As a matter of fact, I’d probably say it was “nearly full.”
- I am a party animal. I love to make everything a party and can always find an excuse for a celebration.
Now your turn! Tell me a little about yourself in the comments.
Nice to meet you! Loved reading the things about you. We have a lot in common. I LOVE the fact that you were homeschooled and are homeschooling. One of my best friends was HSed and is now HSing her 3 boys.
I pulled my 11 year old daughter out the first week of second grade and we haven’t looked back!
I will definitely be back. I found you on the ModSquad connect.
Nice to meet you, too. And I am so glad that you are enjoying homeschooling. It is such a privilege to have that opportunity.
I loved reading this! I also read the end of stories first, or I fly through them just to see what happens at the end.
Hi Tracy! Your kids are adorable!
I am looking forward to reading all your posts. You have some great ideas here I could use in my own homeschooling journey. Thanks!
Hi Tracy,
Glad to read about your homeschooling adventures and see the photos on your blog! I’m on the other end of the journey– with 9 children we homeschooled, am teaching my youngest now, and he is 12.
This was fun to read!! It was actually weird, too, because we have about 7 in common! Good luck on that sugar addiction–I need to be inspired.
We sound so similar
it is so WONDERFUL to meet other God-loving mommies who homeschool as well! 
… And How amazing that you were homeschooled and now you get to give that gift to your own children! Looking forward to reading more through your blog! 
Found ya through MHJ 
hugs from http://littleadventures-als.blogspot.com
So glad to meet you too!
It was fun to read about you!
I hear you about the sugar. I am a big tea drinker in the fall and winter. I would pick up a few pounds in the fall- since I, too, poured the sugar in! Now I use Truvia. Thank God!
Blessings on your homeschooling journey!
I’ve heard of Truvia. Does it leave an aftertaste like Splenda does? I can taste Splenda just about anywhere, bleck! And I, too, love a cup of hot tea in the winter—or Ghirardelli hot chocolate. Mmm.
Truvia took a little to get used to. . .but I was motivated. . .
What a treat to get to know you better. I love your “15 things about me”. Might have to “steal” the idea and do a version of that on my blog sometime.
It’s nice to meet you, Tracy! Let’s see…random facts about me…
1. I totally relate to numbers 1, 2, and 14 on your list.
2. I love loose leaf hot tea…with Truvia since gestational diabetes forced me off of indulging in sugar.
3. I was a math tutor in college. I can’t wait to teach my kids calculus!
4. I reread the entire Anne of Green Gables series every other year. The third Anne movie made me so sick I was only able to watch it once.
5. I work part-time from home as an administrator for an online ministries training school (yeah, that makes scheduling homeschool interesting!).
6. I partially chose TOG based on their high school book list. I’m so excited about sharing Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, and Les Miserables with my 3 girls! (And I have supplemental assignments stored in my head to make Les Miserables a monster unit:-)
7. My husband and I love watching old musicals together.
8. I love to read. As of late, I have had to be very selective and cautious reading non-fiction (which I love) because I criticize mySELF too much, and non-fiction inevitably points to some area of application that I need improvement in. :-O
9. I’m horrified that I ended that last sentence with a preposition but I think that “in which I need improvement” sounds pretentious:-/
10. I live in Oregon but sleep on Texas soil (via a bag of dirt from family land in my home state that that my mom brought up here to put under the bed when my girls were born! All three have been born on top of Texas soil:-) )
I love it! Great to meet you. My favorite is #10, especially since my roots are Texan, too.