IV Fisher:  

I am a grandma! I am a native of Oregon. Born in Portland. Went to Portsmouth elementary school, Roosevelt High and Wilson High School. I graduated in 1967 When I graduated I went to a trade school and graduated with a licence in 1969 shortly after my first child was born. My daughter and I lived with my folks for the first few years of her life while I tried to get us on our feet and out from under the parental thumb. I worked several jobs in my profession and several more that weren't. We finally got out on our own and that's when my life really started. My daughter was the center of my world. I will be forever grateful that she is my child. In Dec of 1977 I met my husband. We lived together for three years then got married in Nov of 1980. Not long after we bought our house, his young son came to live with us. Never let them tell you that blended families are easy. I was a stranger in a strange land. I had trouble parenting at first. I have since decided that I couldn't have asked for a better son. He means the world to me. When the kids grew up and left home, my husband and I decided that we were going to buy a house at the coast. We first looked at the most popular places on the Oregon Coast but didn't find anything. One day my father came back from a day at the coast and said he had found a house that would be a great idea for a beach house. He and my husband went down to see if they could figure out the floor plan and discovered it was for sale. He made a bid on it and my dad came up with a quick down payment for us. We p...Expand for more