CURRENT MISSION

to live every day to the fullest, loving my first love, and watching my children grow into the most amazing person they can be

ABOUT ME

I have 2 great children, my son married, just had his first child, Miss Juniper Lee, Feb 15th 2017, works in Portland Maine as a lead scientist for his company. My daughter graduated June 2017 from Massachusetts Maritime Academy, dual majoring, marine engineering and energy systems engineering. She has a wonderful job working on the new Columbia Class Submarines being built. We live in a beautiful area in southeastern CT. very close to many wonderful places for visiting. We have a very comfortable home and love opening our home for visitors. We love the outdoors camping, fishing, boating of all types, all in our backyard, very blessed. My family is my life, my parents are in there 80's and live down the street and 3 of my siblings are just minutes away, with many nieces and nephews. Love sharing great food and a glass of wine with friends and family.

PHILOSOPHY

Live every day like it's your last, no one is guaranteed tomorrow. DON"T get caught up in the "Real World" where everything is not as it should be. Enjoy the simple life. Desire less.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have done alot of couch surfing on Craigslist. When I travel for work I have always been able to stay with familys, young adults, etc. that have an extra room, and now have become part of their family. I have hosted many wonderful people from Italy, Canada, and many US States. Always looking forward to meeting new surfers, sharing the gift of a beautiful home and all my family.

Interests

Love the outdoors, having family & freinds over for cookouts. Camping down in the camp site overlooking the beautiful river.

• dining
• wine
• boating
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• fishing
• camping
• surfing
• nursing

Music, Movies, and Books

Love old time rock & roll, jazz, the blues, contemporary, country, pretty much all types

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My family and I took in 2 elderly neighbors that had no family in 1998. I grew up with them they were like a second mother & father to me. The state was going to place them both in a nursing home, they thought he could not care for his wife because of her dementia and hypertensin, etc. They thought they were at risk. Go figure, so had to help and moved them in with us. He past away Sept. 9 2001 and she ended up living 6 more years with us. Total care for her, it is true we revert back to being babies sometimes. She was wheel chaired bound, had to be fed and changing diapers. It was amazing how our family all pulled together to give her the best care in the world. We also took in my Aunt in 2002 because she had no where to go after being hospitalized for colon cancer. She stayed with us and cared for her till fer passing in 2004. Then in 2011 we took in my cousin who was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread throughout his body. He was never married and had no where to go so here we go again and took him in. They thought he would have 9 months but as I have seem this to many times I knew it would not be long and he passed away 7 weeks later. Caring for the 4 of them has been the most rewarding experience for our entire family. Update 2016: My Mom was diagnosed with a brain tumor, when released from the hospital she moved in with us, we cared for her with the amazing help of Hospice for the 5th time till her passing 6 months later. Update Oct 2017: Here we go again, my mother-in-law calls and asks we to come to SC to care for her, arrive Sept. 15th, get Hospice set up for her and we tough it out. We had the pleasure of giving her three and a half weeks of around the clock TLC. Mom passed away on Oct 9th.

Teach, Learn, Share

I was elected 11 years ago as President of the Gales Ferry District, of the town I live in. Always busy giving back to our small community.

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