More about me!

Since I don't have anything surrogacy related to post at the moment, I thought I would post a little more about me! I know some people who read this blog are friends of mine so this may bore them a little but I wanted to really introduce myself to those of you who don't know me yet.

Let's start with the easiest - my name is Linda. I am 28 years old although I am quickly closing in on 29 - ugh! I have been married to Paul, who is 39, for 7.5 years. We have a beautiful little girl, Shayla, who was born in November 2005. She is the light of my life. <3

I am a secretary for The Arc of Burlington County. I am, basically, an administrative assistant for anyone in my office who needs me. My main job is to make sure our employees are all up to date on their state training, I schedule training for staff of other non-profit agencies, and I keep our membership database up to date. However, I do a little bit of everything for everybody in the office. I love my job and my co-workers. It's a small office (there are only 14 of us) so we are all pretty close. Most of the people working there have been with The Arc for 10+ years!!

We own a great Victorian in Mount Holly, NJ. It's a beautiful house that is approximately 150 years old. Fortunately for us, the previous owners kept it in great shape, so there is very little work that needs to be done to it. It has 4 bedrooms (2 on each floor) which works out great for us -- we have the master bedroom, Shayla has a bedroom, one is Paul's office, and the last one is a spare bedroom for guests. When we saw this house online 9 months ago, we just *knew* it was the one we were meant to raise Shayla in. We went through he** to get here, but it was all worth it!!

Before moving here I was a Real Estate agent in Ocean County. I used to be really good at it but after getting pregnant with my daughter, my priorities changed. I no longer wanted to show houses all weekend, I wanted to go baby clothes shopping. Maybe someday I'll get back into it, but for now I am happy with where my life has led me.

So, that's me in a nutshell. :-)