We moved to San Diego three days before our Senior year started. Life, of course, ended immediately. Then I discovered how close the beach was to my high school, so things started to look up.

The nineties are, thank goodness, mostly a blur. My memoirs could be titled "Seriously?!"
The readers digest version is this: I welcomed a beautiful daughter to the world, I endured my first marriage relatively unscathed, enjoyed the many benefits of successful corporate life and found out that I was stronger than I ever thought I was.

Late nineties I reconnected with a WONDERUL man and went about having three more kids the easy way...I inherited them. After dating for four "I still have my own place and checking account so you can't hurt me" years I gave up the luxuries of being a single mom and married the man I undoubtedly share a brain with.

We have trotted the United States as one big, happy* family through Sacramento, Phoenix, San Diego, Chicago, Cedar Hills and now Austin.

In Chicago, we found that our family was not complete. We had two boys, two girls, two parents. (One would argue that taking 6 people to Disneyland is the best scenario. If the ride is for two or for three everyone will always have a friend.) And of course, everyone was in school and out of diapers but we knew we needed to add "Ours" to the "Yours and Mine". So Cooper joined our family in 2001 and instantly made everyone related.

Fast forward to 2010 and you will find a MUCH quieter home to which I am not a fan. Three of the five kids no longer live at Casa de Weiland and the fourth is on her final stretch. Poor Cooper is too fast becoming a savvy, sophisticated young man and an accessory to his parents in their empty nest years...

Sundays are the crazy, noisy, full of life and laughter that I crave, but apparently my children's worlds do not revolve around me. I raised them to be independent, contributing members of society. What was I thinking?!

And a big thanks to the reunion committee (The Iverson's) for letting me crash the reunion!

*Happy being completely subjective. And thankfully defined individually, so that I can state with some assurance that we have indeed been happy.

UPDATE: 2020
I can't believe it's been 10 years since I wrote that profile. We've since moved to Boise, back to Chicago and now we're in Vegas. We gained a son in law, a daughter in law and 5 grandchildren! Cooper is a senior in high school and will leave on his mission this summer. We will officially be empty nesters. Weird.

Laughed a lot. Did some homework. Went to dances and football games. Sang, danced, laughed some more. Enjoyed great friendships. Moved to San Diego for our senior year. Wished I had that last year with y'all but the beach was fun too!