Cute baby, wasn't I? My name is Donna. I was born in Key West, Florida and raised up and down the East Coast as a Navy brat. Spent most of my life in Charleston, South Carolina. Many people throughout my life have called me a Southern Belle. (I think it's the strong accent...could be the just my laid back, easy going charm and style. *cough, cough* *S*) I have four daughters: Rebekah, Karen, Briana, and Danielle. Ages: 26 to 12 years of age, the younger three I have taught at home since 1994. I also have a cocker spaniel, C.J., and two cats, Samantha and Salem. Right now our home is in Nebraska.

I'm the product of the heritage of Louisiana and South Carolina. Being a Navy brat afforded me the privilege of moving around a lot. I enjoyed the challenges of change. My father's career took him to Key West, Florida, where I was born and from there up and down the east coast. From the trailer park in Knoxville, Tennessee where I started school, falling in the ditch outside our home excitedly trying to rush in to tell my mother about my first day. Yes, but it wasn't all my fault - the grass was wet with rain and the bus driver pulled off the road a bit too far. Boom! In I slipped and mother got it all on film. Thanks, Mom. The 7 foot drifts of snow in New London, Connecticut when I was eight, which was the only thing that would close school in the north. The countless field trips in Hampton Virginia Public Schools. To the heavy subtropical air and palmetto trees of Charleston, South Carolina - where my father retired - and the final move away from the city to Goose Creek, South Carolina.