Olivia Laird:  

Life I will be 67 this year and I am still going strong. I am a special education teacher and I love my job. I finally feel like education has caught up with student need. I am going to start avocating for a program that will meet the needs of students who fall in what I call the gray area. They don't qualify for Life Skills or for Resource service. We need to meet the needs of these students and that is going to take some lobbing to make it happen. I have 3 wonderful children, a boy and 2 girls, and I have been married to Jim for 47 years. I almost lost him December 20, 2006 and December the 25, 2008 but God intervened and he is doing a lot better. We spent all of the holidays in the hospital again this past year. My Chritmas present was Jim making it out of the CAT Lab alive. We have been in 4 hospitals since December the 25. Jim had retired in 1995 for health reasons. It is a good thing I got a better paying job. We have 7 grandchildren (3 boys and 4 girls). The oldest granddaughter is turning 19 and graduated last year, our oldest grandson graduated this year, and the youngest grandson turned 4. He is a ring-tailed-tooter, lots of personality. It is great being a grandparent. I have had many blessing. In 1988 I was in a wheel chair and no...Expand for more