Monthly Archive: December 2001

News from Nebraska – Dec 01

A lot has changed in our lives over the past six months… The largest change is perhaps the loss of our former “student status”—a condition that is sadly realized when purchasing movie tickets (goodbye, student discounts!) but gladly accepted during those weekends and evenings where “free time” really means FREE time!

I graduated in April from Missouri Baptist College with a BSE in Middle School Education. My student teaching experiences were fantastic, and I can honestly say I’ve never worked so hard in my entire life. I feel blessed to have be taught under two terrific women, Debbie Legters from Westminster Christian Academy and Lynn Placek from Parkway Southwest Middle School, and to learn as much as I did. Teaching middle school kids is a labor of love and my hat goes off to teachers who day after day plan lessons that reach these students. So, I must be teaching now, right? Wrong. I hope to experience the joy of Tredway bambinos before beginning full-time teaching.

A mere two weeks after graduation, Jeremy and I moved back home to Lincoln, Nebraska. Though Lincoln admittedly has no world renowned botanical garden, gets bitterly cold in the winter months and is known to experience drastic changes in weather in the blink of an eye, it is HOME. We missed our family, our friends and our home church quite terribly while in “exile” (as Jeremy puts it) in Missouri. Today it is official—I changed the license plates on Altima, and we are here to stay.

Jeremy has suprised himself by finding a 40 hr/wk job that he can not only survive, but enjoys with a passion. He is the web producer for a company called iUniverse

. I do not mean to be a bragging wife, but I think Jeremy makes fantastic and wonderful websites. Though he is obviously a skilled designer, his greater interest lies in back-end programming, coding of sites, functionality etc. For more information on what exactly that means, you’ll have to ask him. My husband is a detail person, which contributes to his love of web design and his fascination with all things Middle Earth. Though he probably won’t sleep outside the box office when the first “Lord of the Rings” film comes out, he is eagerly awaiting its arrival.

Though we no longer live in a huge city full of free attractions, we really love Lincoln’s Historic Haymarket, college football (Go Huskers!) and beautiful prairie views. If you’re ever in this part of the country visit us and I’ll put clean sheets on the extra bed!