About Me

Just some background on me and my life–I have been married 12 years to my husband, Sarge. My name is Christa and I work outside the home as a social worker.

As I work primarily with children and I am bound by confidentiality, I won’t be going into detail about my job.  Suffice it to say, I love what I do and I am very passionate about it.  Even though it will occasionally stress me out.

Sarge currently works for a Metro area police department in the Southeast and was recently promoted to Lieutenant. But he has asked me to keep him “out of this.” Hence, why I do not use his real name or mention where he works or show his face. He has held multiple positions in his department including regular beat officer, accident investigator, bomb squad support, vice sergeant, undercover narcotics sergeant and so forth. I cannot say I have a favorite in the areas where he’s worked–each has their own pros and cons. All I can say is we’re going on our third year of him being on evening shift and his family is ready to see him on a more reasonable schedule.

My girl is going into fourth grade and my boy is going into first grade.  They too are very aware of their daddy’s job and their mommy’s job as our dinner conversations usually cover lovely topics like suicidal people, juvenile delinquents, drug dealers and more.

The fact that my boy’s teacher told me at a conference this year that he keeps making handcuffs out of these interlocking cubes that they use in math is only one small example of how this life we lead is affecting our children.

We’re definitely not perfect and are just doing the best we can as parents given our odd career choices.

But there’s rarely a dull moment in our house.