Hi!

I'm sure everyone says this, but welcome to my blog. I absolutely never thought that I would have a blog. Blogs are for angst-ridden college students and authors who have meaningful things to say. But, nonetheless, here it is. And here I am venturing into this unknown territory that is the 'blog'. I've already told you a little about myself on the right there and it doesn't get much more complicated than that.

I'm sure you are asking yourself "What is an edugator?" Well, I am a graduate of the University of Florida (Go Gators!!), who's mascot is the Gator. I am also an educator, more specifically, a 5th grade teacher at one time. So, when you combine educator and gator, you get "Edugator". I have been using this moniker since I first entered the College of Education way back in 1995 (gasp!). Now to be fair, I did not originally come up with this idea of joining educator and gator. Way back when I was in middle school, there was a series of T-shirts printed combining other occupations and adjectives with the word gator - like "litigator" and "exaggergator". "Edugator" was one of their creations and frankly, I 'borrowed' it!

As for the swamp...first, gators live in swamps, so that makes sense. Second, the Gator's football field is nicknamed the Swamp, so that also makes sense. Finally, I suffer from Mommy Brain, a condition severely limiting your capacity to think strait once you have children. It results in forgetfulness, becoming scatter-brained, misspelling very common words, and calling your children by the wrong names, among other things. This condition is especially noticeable in reasonably intelligent, pretty with-it women. So, my brain often feels like it is a swamp and my thoughts are quickly sinking in all the muck.

That's it for my first post! Toodles...