Kim Skates:  

Life We moved to Dayton, OH in June, 2008. I am currently teaching 3rd grade in a charter school here in Dayton. It's a very demanding job--one I'm not exactly thrilled with, but it pays the bills. We know we will be in this area for at least 2 years. I have 3 children--my oldest (son) graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2005, and just got married this past September. He is now living in Aviano, Italy with his wife, Monique, a dog (Rocco), and a cat. He is still a Security Forces Officer, and he will be deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan, etc at some point during his time in Italy. I'm not thrilled with that part, but I know it's part of his job. My other 2 children are both girls--one is a freshman at Richland Community College in Decatur. She's living with my parents as a means of getting away from home yet still having a safety net before being totally on her own. The other is a junior in high school, and totally upset with us for moving her the summer before her junior year. Both are hoping to get back to Georgia to finish school sometime this summer. We have technically 4 pets--one cat (25 lbs), some fish, a rabbit, and a dog. The dog was found literally in the middle of a road, so we adopted him. He's quite smart and a very good dog...Expand for more