Getting to Know Heather

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Your family is…
joyful and imaginative

Name 5 homeschool products you cannot live without.
Five in a Row (all of it), Uncle Josh’s Maps CD, Draw Write Now, Math on the Level, Reading Made Easy!

What was your favorite toy as a child?
My Fisher Price Little People and my blocks

What is your favorite toy as a grown-up?
My laptop and my Secret Lair

When you were little, what did you want to do when you grew up?
A doctor- specifically a heart surgeon

How many houses have you lived in?
6

Favorite homeschool hero?
Jane Lambert and Valerie Bendt

Favorite Bible verse?
Jeremiah 29:11

Are you an introvert or extrovert? How do you know?
Introvert- just slightly. I know because I refuel when I’m alone and not when I’m with others. Extroverts are the opposite.

If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
Probably to colonial America. I think. To meet Betsy Ross!

What kind of homeschooler are you?
Relaxed, unit study girl

Do you have an accent?
Oh yes I do! Found out about it when I moved away from “home”. I’m a Marylander through and through and I have that Maryland O. Ten years later and it is still going strong.

Favorite dessert?
Vanilla ice cream with strawberries

What are you good at?
Administrating, planning, and crafting

What are you horrible at?
Video games!!!

Tell us something really strange about yourself.
I’m addicted to rice socks when I sleep at night…no matter the weather or where I am. Ever had room service take several “heat up” shapes to the only microwave in a 5 start hotel and bring them back piping hot on a tray? I have…

Heather is a homeschooling mom of four kids ranging from middle school to preschool and wife to a handsome chemical engineer. Before raising a family, she taught middle school science (with a BS in biological sciences) and has a masters degree in curriculum and instruction secondary education. Now teaching at home means the chance to provide the extraordinary for her children. She’s been homeschooling five years and you can read about those adventures on her blog, Blog She Wrote.