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Younger sister was born! I was 5!

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Parents split up. This was a tough time for us. I was too little to understand. But now looking back I realize it was for the best for me my mom and sister.

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Chris was born :) My baby sibling! I had just turned 10!

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I was 13, My father had been in and out of my life causing a tremendous number of issues for me mentally. This was the start of a long drug addiction battle for me.

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In June of 2004 I was put into Kids Peace for self-mutilation & drug addiction I was there for a month and a half.

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I had been released from Kids Peace and put into outpatient therapy. It didn't help much THIS is where many more issues for me arise from.

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We had moved. School was becoming an issue for me; I was getting involved in the wrong crowds. Drug addiction was getting worse. At this point, my mom had no idea about it. But she knew I needed to get away.

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I had a boyfriend who was MUCH older than me. I was 14, he was 17. I met him when he was home on a day pass from placement. I would leave school early and hang out with him, I ended up getting suspended. This was when my mom started to catch on that I was AGAIN finding the wrong crowds, almost as if when we moved, I went searching for it again.

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I was back into therapy and then needed to be put on house arrest due to how much school I had missed at that point as well as getting into trouble with friends.

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In October of 2006, my friends and I wanted to go to a party that was a few towns away. We didn't have a way there. I ended up stealing my mom's car. At almost 15, I obviously didn't have my license yet and knew nothing about driving. I ended up crashing the car. My "friends" took off and left me there alone. Scared, I called my mom. Who then in turn told me to leave and come home.

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Due to me leaving the accident. This caused more issues for me. Because I already had a bad record, I was put on house arrest waiting for a space to open for me to be put in a placement facility. I had been charged with auto theft, driving without a license and a few other things that I cannot remember.

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I was put into the placement facility to start my almost 2-year sentence. I was put in an all-girls facility called Clear Vision Intervention Center.

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I was released from placement. When I was released, I was on house arrest as a " just in case" to ease back into the community. I was a completely different person than when I went in there. At this point I was a year and some change sober. I was not allowed to talk to my old friends, and I had a probation officer who kept tabs on me to make sure I was not getting into trouble again.

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This year went well. I was staying on the right track, started going to school when I needed to. And my relationships with my family was better.

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I started dating Tim. Granted, I had met Tim in a placement facility I was in BEFORE I went to clear vision. Was this a bad idea? Probably... But in my mind, I was better, so he had to be too, right?

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Jayden was born !!

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Tim and I got Married

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Abuse from Tim started Happening

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Found out I was pregnant again ( with Remi)

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Remi was born

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Found out I was pregnant with Kimber

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Kimber was born

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I Packed up what I could and left Tim, He had been abusive for too long to me, but it then started where he was abusive with the kids.

* This could be a red time, but it could also be green. I was being abused. it was the end of my relationship, but it was also the beginning of a new life that was much healthier for my kids and I*

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I moved in with my grandmother, got my first job (I was not allowed to have a job before or have my own money) I felt like I was free more than I had been before!

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I started dating Matt (My now fiancé)

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I started thinking about what I wanted to do with my life. Now that I was "free" I had so many options of what I wanted to do, Who I wanted to be! I chose school!

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I enrolled in Bryant & Stratton university for Criminal Justice in hopes to be a Juvenile Probation officer. Looking back at my childhood, I realized that although at the time, I wasn't a fan of my probation officer. But had it not been for him, I probably wouldn't have turned out to be the person I ended up being. He had faith I could change, I could do better, and I wanted to be that for a kid as well.

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My youngest (Kimber) Started in kindergarten. I thought for a while about changing my course, my major. My baby starting kindergarten was a big deal for me. I knew I wanted to work with kids but something about my daughter being in kindergarten gave me a change of heart. I thought long and hard about being something other than a JPO.

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I had talked to a friend of mine about LCCC and how much more she liked it. At the time I was still enrolled in BSU. But, next semester was coming fast for both of us. I knew I needed to make a change. I ended up coming to LCCC and switching my major to Early Childhood Education!

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I started working with Lackawanna county/ Scranton Head start as a preschool teachers aide.

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Left head start, although I love small kids, My heart was where the school age kids are!

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Daycare!!! I started working at early explorers! (My daughters originally went there for daycare, but the more I talked to the staff, the more comfortable I felt there and thought it would be a good move!

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I currently work in Early Explorers childcare center. I work 40 hours a week in the mornings I work with infants, toddlers and preschoolers. In the afternoon I work with school age children and I absolutely love it!