About Me
Hi. I’m Tara.
I am a 30-year-old wife and mom. These are the two best, most fulfilling, most fun gigs I can imagine, and I try to share that joy with my Dear Readers.
I love reading, writing, learning, and making life fun for my daughter. In the summer, I love to hike with my family, swim, picnic, and explore nature. In the winter, I like to watch the snow from my couch.
That last bit, about watching the snow from the couch? Not a joke.
I suffer from migraine headaches, and I have battled my weight for my entire life.
I live the life I love, and I love the life I live.
I work hard to stay positive here; I believe that happiness is a choice we can all make. I love the life I share with my husband, Joe, and our daughter, Gracie, and I celebrate it as often as I can.
That’s not to say that my life is all sunshine and daisies. I have bad days. I get crabby. My family hits bumps in the road. I write about those, too.
My husband and I try (and often fail) to achieve a frugal, back-to-basics lifestyle. As you look around, you’ll find lots of articles about things your Grandmother probably did, like canning, making jam, and sewing.
I stay busy balancing my passions for blogging and my family with a career teaching science in a public high school.
I have a B.S. in secondary education and an M.Ed. in teaching and curriculum, both from The Pennsylvania State University. I also hold a Writing Specialist Certificate from Penn State. If you’re interested in my full professional profile, please contact me.
Why Feels Like Home?
When I was growing up, my family moved all the time. It felt like we got settled in to a new home and new town, and then we had to move. No place I lived ever really felt like home to me. When I graduated from college, I was determined to build a home for myself and never move again.
At that point, I was a young woman who intended to be a single professional forever and aspired to earn a PhD and become known as the neighborhood cat lady.
God intervened. In 2005, I met my soul mate. Two years (to the day) after our first date, we got married. Eleven months after that, we became the parents of a baby girl. When she was four months old, this blog was born.
These days, our daughter is a precocious preschooler, I am a busy working mother, and my life feels like home. I know that I’m right where I belong.
Want to know more?
Have a look around. A sample of my favorite posts show up in the sidebar on the right every time you open a page.
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