Angie Shaffer:  

Life The past 3 or 4 years have been rather revealing about who I am and where I am in my life. I had several life-altering blows in a short span, handled them well in retrospect, yet they damaged more than I realized at the time. My grandchildren are my saving grace in all aspects, with their innocent approach to just about anything that comes along. Two people officially call me mom, and 4 beautiful children officially call me grandma, however, my extended family is quite large. Many of my kids' friends call me mom, and their kids naturally adopted me as Grandma. I'm blessed to still have my mom around; it makes me chuckle to remember someone asking me at North Ridge Junior High (in about the year 1967) if the white-haired lady in the audience at some program was my grandma. While most of my family lives in Danville, my daughter, her 3 kids and I live in Springfield, IL. No big dreams of retirement or world travel here - I want to move back to Danville in 3 years when my time with the State of Illinois is up and drive a Schwan's truck. Then I can start telling my son how to raise his kids! I have pictures of all these beautiful people on my MySpace page i...Expand for more