Jeanette Kreider:  

I've been retired since August 2012 and feel like I've had a wonderful yet stressful life ( on occasion ) but haven't we all? Now I am enjoying a carefree yet satisfying life as a retiree. After leaving Okemos I graduated from Albion College in 1966 then received my master's degree in Education (Early Childhood leadership and advocacy) in 1994. We married a week after college graduation and move to I Boston immediately and I worked at Children's Hospital Medical center and Boston University while my husband attended seminary at BU. We immediately had two sons born 16 months apart so life was busy and we enjoyed exploring beautiful New England. We moved to Northern Illinois in 1976 and lived in Freeport, Illinois where I worked for Senior Nutrition Services running their programs in several counties. Then moved to Markham IL (8 miles from the Indiana border but only 20 miles from Chicago). My husband was a Methodist minister and life as a minister's wive was not easy. I did enjoy helping to run the youth group, making paraments and banners as well as singing in the choir. But the night meetings and busy weekends made family life difficult and we were divorced in 1985. I worked for the Community Mennonite Early Learning Center while I was in Markham. While there we built a child care of 60 children to an award winning child care for 200 children - 74 were infants/toddlers. Many of the children were from teenage parents that we worked with and welcomed into the center gi...Expand for more