to follow a few others of my friends by following Jenny on the 30 Great Details. Day 1 being to introduce yourself.
So here goes. =)
My name is Meg and I'm 27. I'm a high school science teacher currently teaching chemistry and something called advanced integrated science (basically chemistry, physics, earth and space science all rolled into one). My husband is in the military and has been for the last 14 years. I actually never intended to marry the military. Every generation of my family has had military members and I've seen what constant upheaval does to a family and didn't really want that for my life. Also said I'd never become a teacher after growing up a teacher's daughter. God's seen fit to make me eat my words, I'm just happy enough that we've got 6 yrs left before my husband can retire with benefits. I'm also truly blessed to be in a profession that I'm talented at and enjoy (though I could do without all the b.s. that inevitably comes with the territory).
As I've said before our current assignment makes for a pretty miserable life, but part of what keeps me going is our two beautiful dogs. We've got a Catahoula Leopard dog named Stella Artois and a Plott Hound named Guinness. They're both girls, about a year and a half apart in age. Guinea turns 2 in November and Stel will be 4 in April. They're usually pretty good girls. Stel was a terror until she hit 2. (One time she ran off while we were off roading in the Jeep and brought us back 8 head of longhorns....) She mellowed a lot when we got Guinea. Now Guinea is the wild one.
Right now they're our surrogate children and have their Daddy wrapped around their little paws. It makes me crazy sometimes how the hubs gives into them. He's the reason why they're up on the furniture and in the bed with us (makes for close to 500 lbs of flesh in the bed at night). He gives them table scraps and extra helpings of kibble. When he's gone for long periods of time they shape up because Mama sticks rules to them. It makes me worried about when we possibly have girl children. A blonde haired, blue-eyed little girl with curly hair will have Daddy wrapped round her fingers faster than chain lightning and I'll be the "bad guy" the rest of my life. Suffice to say children are on the horizon in the near future and I'd be lying if I didn't say I'll be hoping for boys. We haven't officially decided when to try for kids, but it'll be soon as neither of us wants me to be too much older and we don't want to stack kids too close together.
Other than that I'm also a graduate student right now. Makes work and home life interesting; I'm stretched pretty thin. But a masters degree falls nicely into my plans for the future and it's in a subject area that I'm vastly interested in. My research from the summer gave me awesome insight for what I'd like to do in the future when I one day go for my PhD.
:) Yay Meg! I'm glad you're doing this too!
ReplyDeletehaha, I just had this funny picture of the four of you guys sleeping in bed together. I can't imagine... I'll hope you have boys, too! :) Maybe he'd be better with kids who can actually talk and reason?
Hope you have a good week!
i need to go comment on more people's pages so that they know I'm here and it'll be more than just you and me in my blog. heh =)
ReplyDeletei don't know that he'll be better with kids that can talk and reason. the dogs talk back to him when he asks them to do things. besides that he's a sucker for little girls. everybody we know with little girls laugh at him because when we're out with them or they're over at our place they're all over him to play ponies, etc. and feed him their food. it's hilarious actually.
he's able to say no to little boys on just about anything, but a little girl walks up to him with a pink tea saucer or anything else and he's a total softie.