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I am a single mother of two girls, who sweeten my life every day. While I love
being "mommy", it keeps me very busy with activities from basketball games
to soccer games, piano practice, and choir practices, and a whole host of
other activities. It's fun but it's certainly a juggle to manage that schedule
and my own.

I am a full-time middle school teacher. Currently, I teach English and

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I am a single mother of two girls, who sweeten my life every day. While I love
being "mommy", it keeps me very busy with activities from basketball games
to soccer games, piano practice, and choir practices, and a whole host of
other activities. It's fun but it's certainly a juggle to manage that schedule
and my own.

I am a full-time middle school teacher. Currently, I teach English and a
mentor leadership program. In the past I've taught study skills and physical
education as well. I like to mix it up a little. It keeps teaching interesting as
well as challenging, which is pretty much what my schedule is like.

Getting in a workout is certainly a challenge and keeping a consistent plan of
workout is even more so. But what I've found as far as working out is that--
just like I do in teaching--mixing it up a little, that is mixing up my workout
plan, helps my body better respond in terms of strength and overall
conditioning. Like most people, my body will plateau after a while and so I
need to integrate something new or completely change what I do all together.
But it’s always some kind of cardio and some weightlifting and resistance
training.

I’ve been working out pretty regularly since my college days. My first role
model was my mom who began weightlifting when I was in junior high school
—something completely unheard of at that time. I remember hearing kids
telling jokes all the time to each other like, “Your mama lifts weights”. When
I’d hear that, I would say to myself, yeah, my mama does lift weights. I
thought she was pretty cool for doing that.

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