I was born at a very young age and, unfortunately, naked and illiterate. My parents soon took the situation in hand, clothing me in frilly pretty dresses, which affected me to the point that I refused to wear pants until I was in 8th grade, the illiteracy was cured with homeschooling, preschool started with listening in on my older siblings history lessons before I could walk. I come from a rather large family (less then 12, more than 10) and I honestly can’t imagine things any other way, what do small families of say… 5 or 6 children DO all day? ‘Tis a mystery to me :-) Of course life isn’t without it’s complexities and problems, but when it comes to those I have a wonderful heavenly Father who knows me better than anyone and loves me more than I can imagine. Now if I can just remember to trust him, since he’s in control of it all anyway, I should be good!

Our childhoods shape us so much more than we will ever really know, when I was 5 my family lived with friends for a while because we’d sold a house before finding a new one (finding a home with enough bathrooms for 6 daughters is no easy task) but mostly we just lived at the library, every afternoon for 6 months. And in that short happy year an obsession/love/life-long necessity in my life was born. 

 I love libraries. I love what they are, what they stand for, the atmosphere the good ones have, the feeling of calm joy I get when I walk into one…. it’s my own personal haven against the world, and I’m so lucky to be able to work with children in my favorite of all times library, my own darling home town’s :-)

A love of stories in general stems from my love of libraries into my telly watching habits, I can’t help myself, TV shows are my favorite books with the added bonus that they never end! (Unless it’s a great travesty to humanity *sniff sob* Pushing Daisies I miss you!!) I’m set to be a life-long Whovian, I figure if it’s already survived 50 years someday I’ll be able to share it with my grandkids!

I’m basically a normal-ish happy person. It takes work to always look on the bright side and not let life get you down but to me it’s worth it. And yup… that’s it. Any questions…. there’s an app for that (aka my Ask Box.)

Tally-Ho and God Bless!