I am an active and young "grammy" who spends more than 60 hours each week working at the local children's hospital. I teach resident pediatricians and new parents about brain development of infants and toddlers. I help both groups learn what babies and toddlers do at certain ages and about what behaviors we expect to see along the way, and help them relate behaviors to a child's developing brain. I am extremely passionate about my work and am one of those who can say I dearly love to get up in the morning, hit the road for a one hour commute and can't wait to get to my office and start! When I look at the clock at the end of the very long day, I can't believe that 12 hours have passed! I do need to unplug from my work and enjoy my husband (I just call him my prince) and my adult son, his wife, my adult daughter, her doggie (my granddog!) and my two beautiful granddaughters (lights of my life). One thing we all love to do together is cook. Those who don't enjoy the cooking so much do enjoy the consumption segment of the production! Recently, my husband and I have become interested in pairing foods with wine from all over the world. Being a native of Oregon I don't have to look much farther to find the perfect wine for my foods...I love Pinots!!!!! mmmmm! I am also an avid scrapbooker and love using rubber stamps to make pages and cards. I want to leave a legacy of memories for my granddaughters and I want them to treasure the moments with Grammy, making recipes and making memories. I am fortunate that I have many cooking memories with my grandmothers and want those memories to someday comfort my granddaughters as my memories comfort me.