The Emerald City

Hi all,

I just found these forums but the place looks so nice I thought I'd hang out. I have a cousin on another wicked forum, not sure what it's called, but she and I accidently stumbled upon this one for the first time last night. I thought it looked like such a fun place I might as well sign up.

My name is Emily but you can all call me either that or Nanny. I'm twenty-six years old and work as a Journalism and Media teacher for 7-12 grade at a local private high school. I just got married last July so you'll probably hear/see me saying/posting a lot about my husband.

I only have one full biological sibling, a brother, Tad. He's twenty and in his sophmore year in college.

When I was in 6th grade my parents got divorced and then when I was in the 8th my dad remarried. My step-mother's name is Maggie.

I have two half siblings from father's second marriage, Charlie and Brittany. Charlie was born about a year after they got married. He's twelve and in the ninth grade at the school I teach at. He skipped first and then third grade when he was younger. Brittany is the family baby and has only just barely turned five. She's the result of when Dad and Maggie decided to have one last kid a few years ago.

I also have six step-siblings. Jason, the oldest, is twenty-nine and works in the advirtisement for a small scale newspaper in New York. He's a single father to his ten year-old son, Tristan. 

Jenniffer is next, she's twenty-seven. She's a flight attendant for Delta Airlines, maybe you've flown with her?

The twins, Kate and Chrissy, are twenty-one and both in their third year of college. Kate got married almost two years ago and has one-year-old twins of her own, Asa and Chloe and I swear they're the cutest kids in the world. Chrissy's pregnant, so I think the family's going to have another wedding to go to soon. 

Andrew, the next down, is going to be nineteen in about two weeks. He's a freshmen in college, goes to the same school my step-sisters do and little brother do. (Our family sticks together.)

Last is Ryan, who is seventeen and in his senior year at the school I teach at. (When I started teaching here I pulled strings and got him, Andy, and Charlie in, it's a better education than public school.) 

My step siblings have two more half-siblings on their dad's side and every now and then I play older sister to them also. Jasmine's ten and Justin is fourteen.

I know that's a lot of information but I'll probably spend a lot of time posting about my family on here. Not talking about them blatantly, that's off-topic, butn mentioning them from time to time because I almost always have a way to relate one, or more, of them to a story. This way you guys will all have a way of keeping track of them.

Anything else you guys might want to know? Also, please respect that this is my family and though I've given out first names I won't be telling you anything else about them that may help define who they are. Privacy is crucial, especially with so many teenagers and small children in the mix.

-Nanny Em

-- Edited by Nanny at 09:20, 2008-03-03