Thursday, January 25, 2024

UHG2.0

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. A few things have changed around here, so let's get (re)acquainted! 


I am....
💍 married to my best friend,  Mike O'Hara. We eloped on 10/31/21 in flannels and blue jeans at the place we had our first date on mothers day of 2021.
👩🏼‍🏫 I am an elementary school teacher with over 20 years in the classroom. Most of my experience is in K/1 Lutheran school classrooms. Currently,  I feel like a rookie all over again because I'm in my first year of teaching 4th grade at a new school. 
🍞 I am a bread maker! I grew my own sourdough starter about a year ago and having baking bread at home ever since. We call our starter Bubbles. 
👵 I'm a grandma! Mike and I don't have children of our own,  but I became step mom to his 3 adult children and grandma to Violet when we got married. 
🧚‍♀️ I'm am aunt to two of the coolest (and tallest) kids I know. And godmother to two terrific kids! 

Those are some fun things about me. There's also been some hard. 

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 I'm a daughter of divorced parents. My father remarried and I have 2 step-sisters. 
👵 I have lost three of my four grandparents. My remaining grandma is turning 95 this year! 
🫂 A month and a half after Mike and I eloped,  his oldest passed away unexpectedly. God had started working faith in her heart and she was baptized in the hospital before she was taken off life support. Her parents chose to donate her organs and give the gift of life to others. 
📈 I'm at the delightful age of 40-something, where eye-sight is changing, so I recently started wearing readers. It also means hormones are changing,  which means I have trouble sleeping, my hair is thinning, my body aches, and I'm gaining weight and can't seem to get it off. 

So.... what do at have in common?! Let's get get to know each other!