I have been happily married since I was 19. I have had varied interests and activities over the years. I have worked in retail sales, as a cake decorator, a corporate teacher in cake decorating, worked with teenagers for a combined 20 years, and worked with preschoolers for 7 years.

I am a first time blogger, invest in real estate, love to garden, and sometimes do hands on remodeling or repair. I enjoy going with the teens in my church to do mission building projects. At times you will find me looking all "girlie, girlie". Other times you may find me with paint all over me, muddy, wet, or anything but "girlie" looking. It depends if I was painting, landscaping, using a crow bar, or hammer, or putting in a toilet. It's inevitable when I am doing my real estate projects, or doing mission work, that I become a real mess.

My grandchildren are my main priority now. I have five of them. The boys are aged 5,3,2,1 (my daughter's), and the newest arrival is a girl who is 9 months at this time (my son's). I am a born again Christian, and have been focusing on serving through missions. Purple Leaf is a pen name I use at times. Click on the Article tab above to see my articles.

My passion is ...

my grandchildren, and real estate investing (hands on).

My parents always told me ...

don't take on too much.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a grade school teacher.

My favorite memory ...

was staying over at my grandparent's some weekends.

Why I write ...

is because I enjoy it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

right now, a Chis Tomlin CD.

My first job ...

as a teenager was a motel maid in the summers.

My best moment ...

seeing some of my grandchildren be born.

My inspiration ...

is Mrs. Helen Oldham in my church. A senior citizen who is always uplifitng.

Home & Garden > Real Estate (Other) Testimonies: The smallest place I called "home"

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"Wow, not a bad job of picking out a place for us to live," I was thinking, when my Airman husband and I pulled up to the little yellow and white house. He had found the place and signed the lease before I arrived in Texas, from Ohio. We would be living there for the next nine months, while he completed school at Sheppard AFB, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Whoa! We weren't living in the entire house, our part was the smaller part of the duplex. To make it in relevant terms, it was 350 square feet small.

When you walked in there was a sofa in the area of the room that was considered...

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