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Here’s a little story about my oldest daughter, and one of the WORST days of my life….. When she was about 2 and ½ I started having concerns with her hearing.  It seemed the TV was always too loud and I had to say her name a LOT before she heard me….but then again, why would I be too concerned….there is this thing called “selective hearing” and she was just a kid. Who wants to listen to their mom at that age?!?.....Well, at her 3 yr. dr. apt. she didn't quite understand the hearing test, so they said we could just try again at 4 yrs, but just over a month later I realized how bad it had gotten...so I took her into an audiologist..what they found was not good, but VERY rare, so our audiologist thought maybe she did something wrong and so she wanted a second test/opinion….Whatever was happening it seemed urgent….usually you have to make appointments for this kind of stuff and wait weeks to come back in, but she left the room and got another audiologist from the cl

So in July of 2017 I decided to become a BeachBody Coach, I’m not here to sell anything, just thought I’d start with this to share my fitness journey :) …. I was always kind of the skinny girl…..but let’s just say that since having two kids, picking up some not so healthy habits (like eating a lot and drinking with my buddies, NEVER working out, and simply just being in my 30’s and for some reason only getting older)….it’s taken a toll on me….I was never happy with the way I looked anymore and my shirts were beginning to get tight on my gut…so much so that in the past school year I had three different students ask about the baby in my belly. So I decided to finally do something about it. I joined a workout group called ShiftShop through beachbody (from home – no way would I ever embarrass myself in public at a gym) ….well, I fell in love….in love with the awesome people that go along with it, in love with the shakeology, and in love with working out!....ME- the girl who used to tease

My name is Stephanie.  I wear a lot of hats...not literally, in fact I rarely wear hats, I think they make my ears look funny and I just don’t have a pretty enough face to pull them off! What I meant to say is I have many titles…..First and foremost I am a mother to two wonderfully amazing girls, Evelyn and Natalie (currently 9 and 6, although lately it seems more like 19 and 16 ughh!) I am a wife of almost 12 years, married to my high school sweetheart.  I am a teacher…(I teach reading intervention, english to students that speak other languages (I’m somewhat fluent in Spanish), and I am also a team teacher for part of the day with second graders for writing).  I am also a fitness coach...that is definitely a work in progress but that’ll be another blog...I am also a mommy to an 11 year old Boston Terrier….most people have their dog babies until they have their real babies, but not me…..she is still my baby, I love her dearly!  My family also has a cute little stinky boy named Squeak,