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Hello. My name is Joy. I’m 28 years old, have a Masters degree, live with my partner of almost 6 years and our dog, Kai. The most important things to me are family, education and travel. I feel extremely grateful that I’m able to make a living supporting and educating new and expectant families as a birth and postpartum dou.la and child.birth educator.

Here’s the requisite recent picture:

 

Post hair appointment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby Pineapples!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two for good measure. The first is after my recent hair appointment (my hair is not normally curly). The second was from Wednesday when we went to a local farmers co-op and toured a fruit garden.

And finally, I’m not sure how “interesting” these will be, but here goes:

1. I’m in Hawaii right now!
2. I hate to admit it, but I love warm breezy weather and am not looking forward to returning to the rainy PNW.
3. I love to read and have read more novels in the past 6 months than I did in the past 2 year (due to grad school).
4. My goals this year are saving money, continuing to work on organization/decorating our home and traveling at least once more.
5. We’ve been talking about going to New Zealand and Australia for years and are saving all our frequent-flyer miles toward a trip there.
6. I haven’t been to Asia or South America yet, but want to go to both at some point, specifically Japan, India, Thailand and Buenos Aires.
7. My best friend is moving to Prague for a year this fall and I’m excited about visiting, hopefully next February/March.
8. I miss being in school and have started looking into new educational opportunities.
9. A couple of the programs that I’m looking into are low-residency. Education plus travel seems like it could be fun, or it could be a hassle.
10. My “five-year plan” feels less nailed down than the one from five years ago.
11. I enjoy cooking and want to start baking more.
12. I want to spend more time with my sister. I need to call her and see if she can come visit.
13. I’m looking forward to seeing C in 4 more days. This is the longest we’ve been apart since South Africa.
14. I’ve been doing genealogical research (mainly using ancestry) and it’s been so interesting. Thanks to a cousin who’s done a bunch on my dad’s side, I have as far back as the 1550s.
15. I’m off to enjoy my vacation!

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