Hello to everyone in REOL536!

Colonial Williamsburg being "shamed"

Hello everyone!  I am Christa Osborne and I am currently enrolled in the MAT program at UC, with concentration in Middle Grades Science.  I graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1995 with my Bachelor's in Biological Sciences.  Since then, I have been in the corporate world of security, a freelance Visual Management designer, a small business owner, and a banker.  I am currently the Operations Admin for a local financial institution.  I oversee the disaster recovery program there.  If there's a disaster to prepare for, I'm your girl!
However, my most important job is being a mom.  Eleven years ago I was blessed to become the mother of a most precocious little girl.  She keeps me humble and makes me laugh.  She is a sixth grader now and reminds me of the craziness that comes with middle school and the start of the teenage years!  She's a barrel racer and a straight A student and I could not be more proud.

After life changes including divorce and a complete career loss, I began my graduate program in the fall of 2010 as a way to investigate if teaching was an option for me. I have enjoyed my classes at UC and I am a few classes away from graduation now.  At this point, I'm still unsure of how I'll use my education, but I'm enjoying the opportunity to be here.  And now...I have some more reading to do!