I feel like I am in fifth grade. “Please stand and tell us your name and 1 thing about yourself…”  I hated that interminable second where you try to think of one thing to encapsulate all that you are.  And now here I stand once more with the same question but a lot more room to answer . 

I am a young mother of two girls.  I have a degree in Accounting and my husband is an architect.  We have 3 pet dogs and one service dog.  Right now, we have 7 cats and 3 kittens. 

I try to do needlepoint and read, but as every mom knows hobbies are a hard thing to find time for in the swirl of after school classes, uniforms, dogs who need to go the vet, cats who need to go to the vet, spending time in my girl’s classrooms, cooking, appliances that die, clothes that mysteriously disappear—and that’s only the first 15 minutes of my day…