Hi! I'm Kerri!

What Make's me, me?

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Well, 

I bounce like a cat, but run I like Phoebe from Friends (probably just dated myself).

I wasn't built for speed and I'm okay with it.

I work hard, but I play harder.

I'm silly and smart; I'm witty and quick to offer a smile.

I'm headstrong and sharp tongued, passionate and kind. I'm goofy, giggly. 

I have a smile that goes from ear to ear, and my eyes squint when I'm truly smiling.

I'm confident and happy with my age and growing lines- I've earned them.

I have some "grays" but I simply claim to be sprouting glitter!

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I sing off key, but at least I give it a try!

I'm always a work in progress - always will be.

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I've got a handful of the best girlfriends I can ask for.

They are worth their weight in gold, so technically, I'm a rich woman!

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 I've visited 17 Caribbean Islands and Central American countries (many a few times over).

But, my favorite island is Bermuda... Her pink sand own my heart. I try to go back every single year.

Here's a little secret...

In recent years, I've also fallen in love with a tiny island off the southern most coast of North Carolina.

I believe will become my home in the future- when my children are grown. It's a 3000 person town with one blinking light!

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I love the color blue and hate red.

I love potato chips, but I loathe cupcakes!

Yuck, yuck, yuck! 

I "sea" a salty pattern. Maybe I am an ocean girl at heart?

Though snow is my absolute favorite thing in the world, the beach (preferably a tropical one) is a very close second.

I try to watch sun rises and sunsets every day, if I can.

I love to cook, garden and I'm crafty to a fault.

I can rig just about anything; it goes with working off the cuff.

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I'm allergic to bees, but I love them anyway!

The way to my heart is with flowers. I have a tulip garden a florist would be jealous of! 

I'm not "girly" and certainly not grossed out by much of anything... In the next sentence you will realize why.

I’ve had a pretty exciting life as a Paramedic (this is the why) and a thoughtfully challenging one as a Patient Advocate.

I cherished my time as an Alzheimer’s educator/advocate.

However,

Mom has been the best "job" of all!

I'm the biggest cheerleader to a collage aged, sailing, hockey playing, super high achieving daughter,

and, an elementary age son who's into... Well... Everything!

I know just how you feel when you say "my kids are everything to me" or, "they grow up so fast!" Or, "they’re driving me bananas."

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I've been married for 26 years. 

He's my best friend.

I remember the day 29 years ago, on the side of a well known road, we met!

 I was 17!

We dream of the incredible life we would go on to create.

I understand the starry eyed love, and thinking life is going "too fast", and wondering how did we get "here?" 

I understand, and I see the quiet "I love you to the ends of the earth looks" that only couples share. 

I also understand the tired, life's way too hectic, "do I really have to do this? exchanges...

You know, the ones only between you and your partner?

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Like you, my family has always been and always will be, my entire world.

My family has been my life's work.

They come first to me.

They're my air, my earth, my ground, my compass, and my solace.​

I work very bizarre hours and my off-time sacred to me for that reason.

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