I should have picked up on my love for design at the age of 11 when I used my mother’s JC Penney catalog to make a furnished floor plan of my dream house, or seen it in my hoarding of laminate countertop samples collected from the hardware stores my parents visited. For some reason, I didn’t immediately listen to the calling to become a designer and felt a career as a massage therapist was the ticket out of my small town in rural northwest Ohio. While in massage therapy school, I met my husband who had his future planned in the Army when he graduated college from The Ohio State University. A few years later, he swept me off my feet and landed us in Hawaii where instead of relicensing to practice massage therapy, we started our family.

After a handful of duty stations from Hawaii to the panhandle of Florida, we’ve had two more children and settled down in what I have determined to be pure bliss. We bought 56 acres to start our own farm just like the one that I was so desperate to leave when I was a kid. As we settle into our 1965 farmhouse that is in need of a renovation and addition to accommodate us, we found that starting my own firm, on my own terms, is exactly where God always intended us to be. 

The Army has infused us with the art of creativity and ingenuity as we adapt to each place we have lived. Being limited by our location has never hindered us from using our God given talents. Raising two children and having a third child while going to school online for my degree has given me the ability to multitask like nobody’s business. Juggling my family and my career path as a designer isn’t always easy, but I am constantly pulling inspiration from all those working moms refusing to sacrifice themselves to have one or the other. 

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