Verna Dayton:  

What do I say about me? In high school I'm not sure where I fit in because the popular, sports finatics, and the "druggies" wasn't where I fit in although I did have some friends in those groups. I guess the dad of my first boyfriend, Brad, said it in oee word "homely". At age 20, I got contacts and my perspective of myself improved after that. Then I got married and started letting my hair grow longer. Jim, my husband likes it long although it doesn't get at long as our girls hair. Ok, enough of that. Since high school, the job I have held the longest is daycare. Daycare has been my savior more than once. I did daycare for almost 10 years while having our girls. When the youngest, Cora, was almost a year old I needed a change and went to work elsewhere in the evenings so Jim could watch them. I stayed home during the day with them. It worked out well since the older two were in school and we carpooled with about 3-4 other families driving the kids to Harper to the private school there. In 1996 we got a burr under our saddle and decided to move. Where? We knew where we didn't want to move. Then we decided to move where we like to go on vacation, Missouri. Only we didn't want to live in Branson so...Expand for more