15 Years Ago....June 1993. It was the summer before my senior year in high school. I guess I was thinking about college and looking forward to graduation and moving on.
June 1994- Graduated from high school
September 1994- Started my freshman year at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA
September 1994- Met this guy, Ethan, in our macroeconomics class
January 1995- Ethan and I started dating.
May 1997- Ethan graduated from F&M and moved to New Jersey.
May 1998- I graduated from F&M with a bachelor's degree in geology and moved to New Jersey. Ethan and I got our first apartment together.
September 1998- Started my Master's degree at Rutgers University. Ethan was already in his second year of graduate school at Rutgers .
May 2000- I received my M.S. degree in geophysics and Ethan and I moved to Columbus, Ohio
Summer 2000- I started working as a high school science editor for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill in Columbus. Ethan started a PhD program in paleontology at Ohio State.
June 2001- Ethan and I were married at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio.
Fall 2002- I started working as a college textbook sales representative for Prentice Hall.
June 2003- I got pregnant for the first time.
July 2003- I had a miscarriage.
September 2003- Found out I was pregnant again. This time it stuck.
March 2004- Ethan accepted a job as a production geologist with Shell Oil in Houston, Texas
April 2004- Our son, Noah Gabriel, was born 5 weeks early in Columbus, Ohio
July 2004- Ethan successfully defended his PhD thesis.
July 2004- We moved from Columbus, Ohio to Houston, Texas, and Ethan started working at Shell. I quit my job with Prentice Hall and became a stay at home mom.
April 2005- We bought our first house.
May 2005- I found out I was pregnant again.
May 2005- We moved into our new home.
January 2006- Our daughter, Caroline Lily, was born in Missouri City, Texas.
Summer 2006- I started doing work as a freelance technical writer.
Summer 2007- I started doing work as a freelance web writer.
Present, June 2008- Ethan is still working at Shell, and I am still doing freelance writing. Noah is 4 years old, and Caroline is almost 2.5 years old. We still live in a Houston suburb.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Tagged....
I saw this on another blog and figured I'd give it a try.
Five Non Work Things to Do on My List Today:
Five Non Work Things to Do on My List Today:
- make a doctor's appointment
- balance the checkbook
- do some writing
- put away the laundry
- watch Hell's Kitchen on TV
Five Snacks I Enjoy:
- brownies
- cheese and crackers
- raisins
- doritos
- cheez its
Places I have Lived in Chronological Order:
- Baltimore, MD
- Owings Mills, MD
- Lancaster, PA
- Highland Park, NJ
- Columbus, OH
- Sugar Land, TX
- Richmond, TX
Five Things I Would Do If I Was a Billionaire:
- Invest
- Pay off all debt
- Buy a bigger house and furnish it
- Travel
- Save for my kids' college educations
Jobs I have Had:
- Babysitter
- Calculus tutor
- Summer research assistant
- Undergraduate teaching assistant
- Tutor for the athletic department at Rutgers University
- Graduate teaching assistant
- Freelance textbook fact checker for McGraw-Hill
- High school science department tracker/editor for McGraw-Hill
- College textbook sales representative for Prentice Hall
- Freelance technical writer
- Freelance web content writer
- Full time mommy!
What I was doing 10 years ago:
- I had just graduated college and was getting ready to move to New Jersey to start graduate school. Ethan and I were looking for our first apartment in New Jersey. I think that's about it!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
First post!
Welcome to the new Skinner family blog. Here you will be able to find news and updates on our family!
And now for some introductions. Ethan is currently a geologist for an oil company in Houston, and I am a stay at home mom and a freelance writer. Our two kids are named Noah and Caroline. Noah is three and a half and a part time preschool student and full time funny guy and starter of mischief. Caroline is 21 months old and a total spitfire. She's always on the go, trying to act older than she is, and generally cracking us up. Plus, she has the craziest, curliest hair ever. We live in a suburb of Houston and have been in Texas since July 2004.
In our previous lives, Ethan and I lived in New Jersey when we were both Master's degree students at Rutgers. We then moved to Columbus, Ohio in 2000 where Ethan got a Ph.D. at Ohio State in 2004, and where I worked as both a science textbook editor and a college textbook sales representative for two major publishing companies. We were married in June 2001 in Columbus.
So, welcome. We hope you enjoy it here!
And now for some introductions. Ethan is currently a geologist for an oil company in Houston, and I am a stay at home mom and a freelance writer. Our two kids are named Noah and Caroline. Noah is three and a half and a part time preschool student and full time funny guy and starter of mischief. Caroline is 21 months old and a total spitfire. She's always on the go, trying to act older than she is, and generally cracking us up. Plus, she has the craziest, curliest hair ever. We live in a suburb of Houston and have been in Texas since July 2004.
In our previous lives, Ethan and I lived in New Jersey when we were both Master's degree students at Rutgers. We then moved to Columbus, Ohio in 2000 where Ethan got a Ph.D. at Ohio State in 2004, and where I worked as both a science textbook editor and a college textbook sales representative for two major publishing companies. We were married in June 2001 in Columbus.
So, welcome. We hope you enjoy it here!
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