Me!

Let me tell you a little bit about ME and the folks you will be reading about in my posts! I am an elementary teacher (that is a blog itself...probably will write more about that once school starts back up again - my job even goes along with my blog title "trapped between a scream and a hug"). I have been teaching on and off for 10 years. I took a couple of years off to stay at home with my baby girl, Emma....who I'll get to in a minute. Wish I would have known more about blogging then - Anyhow, going on. I have been married to my husband Brian - who I met in college - for almost 8 years (8 year anniversary in August...close enough!) - again "trapped between a scream and hug" Geesh, the title really does say it all. We had our beautiful, loving, and stubborn baby girl Emma in 2006. She is my everything. I never imagined loving someone SO much. We live in a small lake community in VA. I love it here. We are originally from PA...way too cold up there for me. So we live about 6-7 hours away from our family which can be very difficult at times - we have no support here...it's just us. It makes it hard to have a life outside of parenthood. I also feel very bad for Emma b/c she is so far away fro her immediate family. I guess it makes seeing them that much more special though. But, on the opposite side - I love being away - yeah, I know weird...but it's true. I feel VERY accomplished knowing my husband and I have basically done it on our own! I don't have anyone telling me I should be doing things a different way - well besides Brian but oh well. Does he count?? Many days, especially when I am working full time I just want to scream as loud as I can - but then I look in to those gorgeous blue eyes and I melt - and it truly puts things in perspective for me. I do yell, but I hope that I hug more :) So this is me in a nutshell. I love my little family and we are by no means a perfect family - we are just US!