About

Of course the road to adulthood is not always a straight one…I became quite serious about classical ballet as a tween, and I spent a year in Frankfurt, Germany dancing full time after graduating high school  (und ya ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch!).

After saying auf widersehen to Germany, I enrolled in University back home in Canada and began what was to become a 13 year EPIC journey from start to finish!

During my (extensive) university career I changed cities 3 times, got married, and had 1.8 children.  I was verrrry pregnant when I defended my thesis, I think my committee was relieved that I didn’t go into labor at the defense.

Now I have 4 children, and like many gals out there I think that I’m a better mother when I’m allowed to spend some time (ok maybe just a little time these days!) outside of motherhood.

It’s all about the balance.  I love spending time outside with my children, looking for bugs, crayfish, frogs and whatever else.  I also make a mean playdough and several kinds of babyfood.  On the other hand I cannot wait to steal up to my office and read about all of the wierd and wonderful research taking place in the wonderful world of biology!