My husband and me

Uh....It seems I don't have any decent pictures of either of us by ourselves. In fact, the only halfway decent picture of myself is on your right, and it was taken well over a year ago! Anyway, I'll introduce myself here. I'm Mandy. I struggle with exactly how to identify myself sometimes, as it seems that everything that defines me connects me to another person or place. I'm wife to Brian and mom to two great kids. I work 30 hours a week as a physical therapist assistant at a nursing home. I like my job well enough, but I'm pretty sure I could make a full time job out of just keeping this house in order. Of course, keeping any sense of order in this house would require my kids to remain in day care at least part time anyway, since I can't get a thing done with them here. I'm hoping that is just an age thing with them, and that as they get older, I'll be able to trust them to play by themselves for a decent amount of time without disasterous consequences! Before the kiddos came along, I was a memeber of my city's philharmonic chorus. I love to sing, and I especially love choral music. It moves me. I quit that when I was pregnant with Jacob (standing too long just wore me out). I havn't gone back yet, but I'm hoping to make a return when my kids are a bit older and less demanding of my time.

My husband works in residence life at a local university. To get a picture of what he looks like, just look at Jacob's picture and add 27 years. We met 11 years ago while we were both students in college (actually, the same university that he works at now!). It's funny, we havn't even moved out of the immediate neighborhood. As part of his job compensation, we live in university housing (thankfully we are now in a house, instead of trying to raise the kids in a residence hall, which is where we lived at first). We married a year after we graduated, and are about to celebrate our 5th anniverary. So much has changed in our lives in those 5 short years, yet I still love him as much as I ever did. I am so lucky to have him in my life!