Okay, so where was I?
I was born January 23, 1963 in Annapolis, MD. My parents, Bill and Pat Sinclair, named me Virginia Page Sinclair. My mom wanted to name me Caroline, but my dad was not having it because of the Kennedy's. Virginia was taken from my most loving grandmother, my mom's mom, Virginia Stimson or Stimpson (I will have to check on that.) Hawkins. We called her Muttie, other people called her Gints. Page is a name that this same grandmother liked. I am not sure why they left out the 'i', but it made for some great teasing as I was growing up. It was a different name for back then, but I finally met another Paige when I was in elementary school. I was jealous of her 'i'. I am the youngest of 4 children.
We moved along the east, living in Severna Park, MD, Charleston, NC, and we ended up staying in Virginia Beach, VA. We moved to Virginia Beach in 1966 or 67. I think my mom had had it with the moving thing. I can't imagine doing it with 4 children. I know my dad would work out of town and come home on the weekends. I am not sure how my mom did that either.
We lived in a nice neighborhood called Alanton. My sister and I shared a room. My two brothers got their own rooms.
I am going to fast forward because I see so many stories in just that time, that I will save it for another time. After my brothers and sisters had moved on to college, my parents built their dream house in Sandbridge, which is still a part of Virginia Beach. It used to be a small oceanfront community with not many people who lived there year round. I had to change schools for the first time in my life and it had to be junior high. I graduated from Kellam High School in 1981, went to Radford University and had a great time for 4 years, but did not earn a degree. Again, lots of stories in there. I went to many colleges for a semester or two, lived in Orlando, FL, for awhile, then finally settled down and got my Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education from Norfolk State University. At this time, I met met my future husband and we got married June 27, 1992 6 months after I graduated from college. I was 29 years old. I had my first daughter in 1993, and my second and last daughter New Year's Eve in 1996. I got a teaching job in Virginia Beach in 1994. During that time, I received my Masters Degree in Reading from the University of Virginia. I taught there until 2005 when we decided to move to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I started teaching in Dare County in 2007 and I am still teaching! My husband passed away April 29, 2017, and it is still painful.
So that is my life in a nutshell because I am beginning to see the many stories that can be told within this short autobiography.
Me and my girls after white water rafting in Western North Carolina.
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