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Hello, I joined this forum for a number of reasons one of which is my older home educated offspring are off to college and when I completed graduate school I expected to be working on my career, but we added a third child! 
This has been wonderful fun. I'm older, less stressed, and have years of educational experience behind me including home schooling a dyslexic, dysgraphic and ADD child. I'm reviewing all my old favorite educational methods and thinking about what I will use to teach this child. So far, this child is wonderfully normal with daddy's systematic approach to exploration. I'm expecting to have a lot of fun teaching this child. 
Meanwhile, hubby insists I continue my work, and being that he is older and practically retired (his idea of retirement includes work, work, and more work...but I digress) and his schedule allows for a lot of child care and teaching so I am able to block out time every day to continue my own work.
About me, well, I am what my friends growing up called "The Brain" and a rather extreme version of it at that. Some women knit beautiful things, I study, some women create lovely homes, I study, some women sew fabulously well, or quilt, or cook, or do any number of really wonderful things (and a part of me wishes I had those inclinations) but I study. The result is I have several degrees, one in literature, certifications for education, a MA in Theological Studies, part of the work for a certificate of Carmelite Studies, most of the course work for an MS in Breeding Theory (think applied genetics and reproductive technologies and animal issues), and extensive reading in too many subjects to list. All while raising a family and keeping house.
I don't skim, if I read it, I retain it and if someone asks the right question in a conversation I may hit "lecture mode" as my kids call it and bore everyone to tears. I try not to, but hey, I find the best way to make friends is to be open about my quirks and that is one of the more annoying ones. I love information and helping people connect with the materials they seek--and this is one of the nicer sides to my quirks.
I love children, feel passionately about education, parental rights, and the Catholic faith.
I'm also nutty over my husband for whom my quirks are a perfect match to his--I married a mad scientist--LOL!! He considers reference books to be "tools" and while he never takes me out to dinner, my shelves have some lovely references, things not often found outside of a seminary or school of theology--like a complete set of commentaries on the entire Bible taken from Early Christian writers, several collections of the complete writings of various doctors of the church, lots of volumes of church fathers, other Bible commentaries, and five different sets of commentaries just on the gospels. But it is balanced by the fact that none of the dishes match because we don't spend money on things like that!
Some men own woodworking tools, mine owns an electron microscope (bought two broken ones and fixed one with the parts from the other--all done on the cheap)...his PHD dissertation was on laser technology. I hope this youngest child likes physics and robotics--neither of my older ones took the science path and I still want a robot that does house keeping!! 
Hmm, intro material.... I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, family and mentors.
My favorite Saints are Raphael, Escriva, Teresa of Avila, Edith Stein, Thomas Aquinas, Athanasius, Joseph of Cupertino, and although not yet declared a Saint, John Paul the Great. I've studied the writings of most of those listed who write including some books by John Paul II that were rather difficult to find. I have a devotion to our Lady under the titles of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Occasionally, I sew because I dislike what they sell in stores--most of what they consider clothing is awful and the fabric they choose are even worse. I'm short, hour glass, and that is NOT what the designers design to fit. I love skirts and most of mine are LONG, well below the knee, and very full. Not something found in stores most of the time.
I am learning a musical instrument, beginning just this year. It is challenging because I'm not particularly talented. I feel satisfaction though when I manage some tiny improvement. Hubby says occasionally I have moments when the noise sounds a little bit like it might almost be music.
I enjoy ballroom dance, especially waltz and tango. I do other forms of dance as well--badly--but it is far more interesting to belly dance than to do aerobics. If I am bored I hate it and won't do it, which may be a character flaw but is none the less true of me and I have too many things to fix to worry about this one.
I'm over-weight and working on it, not all that successfully, but with an emphasis on health.
I'm high strung and very very introverted. I dislike crowds but have an odd quirk where I turn into what looks like an extrovert for short periods of time to cope with stressors, like the crowds at conferences, and I can thank my mother for forcing me to learn how to do that. It takes a week of rest to recover from a weekend at say a home school conference--it is that stressful for me.
Coffee and conversation with one or two friends is my favorite way to socialize.
As practically anyone who knows me knows all these things, and a few enemies over the years have created some truly horrific lies about me that I have had to live with in the past--I'm not shy about being myself and consider this all public knowledge. I am aware that what I post on the internet is public and permanent and am OK with that. 
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Welcome, Ann! :) Lovely to see you here.
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Welcome! This board is wonderful.. you'll love it here.
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Wow, Ann Seeton, I found your introduction fascinating! I especially like the part about you being a strong introvert...you share of yourself so easily with the written word. I tend to be chatty here and IRL, often chalking it up to me being a strong extrovert. Interesting!
I hope you like it here and that you'll keep sharing your journey. God bless!
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Angie Mc wrote:
| Wow, Ann Seeton, I found your introduction fascinating! I especially like the part about you being a strong introvert...you share of yourself so easily with the written word. |
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Thank you for the nice compliment.
I enjoy writing having been expressing myself this way since early childhood when talking was rather more difficult for me than it is now. My parents liked me to write too so this activity was strongly reinforced.
I am such an introvert growing up that I didn't even know I was different until I was a teenager. I noticed that I wasn't adding anything to the conversations going on around me so, in 8th grade I spoke up at lunch. I had spent a week attempting to formulate a comment to add to a conversation and manage to say it before the subject totally changed. Finally, I managed to think up a single sentence and blurt it into an opening in the conversation before the topic changed. My life long friends fell silent and one dear friend said, "she spoke" and only then did I realize how obvious my silence at school had been and how accepted.
I got over that tendency to simply not speak. :)
I love getting out around extroverts once or twice a year. This February I went to a festival of acoustic music and found myself surrounded by more extroverts in one place than I had ever met. It was a blast. People introducing themselves right and left. I find the extrovert energies flying around the atmosphere to be quite fun even if totally exhausting. That one day took me over a week in order to recover!
I find my introversion amusing and normal for me. I suit my equally introverted hubby. However, raising an extrovert child was an experience!
What does a introvert do when home schooling a child who is an extrovert and will be damaged by a lack of contact with other people? Having no clue I simply enrolled the child in everything social... Scouting, Dance, Martial Arts, Game Club, Robotics Club and encouraged having friends over... until it got to be too much for me and we had to scale back to Scouting, dance and friends over.
I keep waiting to see how our youngest will go. One older child is as introverted as I am. The other is very very very social and extrovert. So I watch this family member and wonder.
What sort of uncomfortable situations will I enter in order to meet the needs of this person? Home School is an adventure.
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wow Anne, what a fascinating introduction I feel as if we know so much already about you I'm totally fascinated by your studies, and your home environment.
Welcome to 4Real 
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Welcome Anne, as said before this is a wonderful place to be!
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