From kindergarten on, I always wanted to be a teacher. I never waivered in that either, even when my former art teacher mom kept telling me "Whatever you do, don't become a teacher. It's a thankless profession." I don't have to be thanked in words though to know that what I do makes an impact. For some bizarre reason, teenagers trust me and they come to me and tell me everything I never wanted to know about their lives. But it makes me happy to know that they trust me enough to come to me for advice. I guess I never anticipated how many different hats I would have to wear as a high school teacher, but I definitely made the right choice in professions and glad that I always held onto that dream.

I also always wanted to live in Spain, which I did in college and I wanted to travel extensively there, which I have managed to do.

And as a child who spent every summer on the beach in Cape Cod, MA, my dreams for a wedding never included a fancy church or a priest in a stuffy collar (much to the chagrin of my ultra-Catholic parents). As a child I always dreamed of getting married next to the ocean, and now we have done that. I would say that I have been pretty good about seeing the dreams that really mattered the most to fruition. Not sure what is next...