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About Me

I am a 28 year old teacher in downeast Maine. I am a native Mainer, and would live nowhere else! I was a music education major in college, but have started getting my Master's in Gifted and Talented. I worked for four years exclusively as a K-8 Music teacher, then changed jobs and added a gifted and talented position. I love teaching, and gifted and talented has been so rewarding. Plus, where else could you get paid for playing chess and messing with Legos?? Now I teach just GT - I went part-time so that I could spend more time with my daughter while she's a baby. They're only little once!

My husband is Andrew, also a teacher. We met in September 1996 as freshmen at UMaine, and have been together ever since. Our daughter Elizabeth was born in September 2005 - I can't believe she's a year and a half old! We are loving parenthood and have another little girl expected the end of April!

My Interests

Parenting, Cloth diapering, Sewing, Golf, Gardening, Cooking, La Leche League, Fishing, Pets, Teaching, Digital Photography, Music, Comedy - like Bob Marley (Mainer), George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Bill Cosby

I'd like to meet:

Dubya, so I could beat him about the head repeatedly with a wet noodle.

Music:

Pretty much anything! Some favorites include: Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Counting Crows, Nickelback, Cake, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, ....

Movies:

Pursuit of Happyness, 40 Year Old Virgin, Harry Potter, March of the Penguins, Blues Brothers, Chicago, Rent, Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents

Television:

House, 24, Jericho, Lost, Law and Order (and all it's offspring), House of Babies, The Simpsons, Prison Break

Books:

Baby Signs, The Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, So That's What Those Are For, Shopaholic series, Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. Authors: Ina May Gaskin, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, EB White, Sandra Boynton, James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Robin Cook. Currently reading: "A Midwife's Story" by Penny Armstrong

My Blog

A little behind (me??)

Just wanted to say thimgs are great. We're having so much fun with two daughters. Elizabeth is a chatterbox with an amazing imagination. Catherine's a motor baby. At just 8 mon...
Posted by Marleina on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:12:00 PST

Procrastinator from birth!

So, my daughter finally made her appearance, just one day shy of two weeks past her estimated due date! After one day of early labor that fizzled, then a couple days later things really kicked in. S...
Posted by Marleina on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:31:00 PST

Still waiting!

Yep. Here I am, 41w3d - 10 days "overdue". I guess the free rent and meals are too good to let go!
Posted by Marleina on Sun, 06 May 2007 06:10:00 PST

Lady-in-waiting...

So here I am, 39 weeks 4 days along (that's 3 days from my estimated due date, for you non-childbearing knowledge types). I ended up developing cholestasis again, but have been taking meds that ...
Posted by Marleina on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:36:00 PST

Another girl??

So we had an ultrasound a couple weeks ago, and it looks like we're going to have another daughter on our hands. It's surprising, considering that my husband's family produces very few females! I fo...
Posted by Marleina on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:12:00 PST

A new year

So, tomorrow is our first staff in-service day for the 2006-2007 school year. Although I'm sad to see summer end, I'm looking forward to getting back. I think this is the first time I...
Posted by Marleina on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:48:00 PST

It's the end of the world as we know it...

So, my daughter started crawling this week. Wow - I never realized how many things there are in my house that can fit in her mouth! Luckily she still moves fairly slowly, so we are able to keep up w...
Posted by Marleina on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:09:00 PST