Toni Alexander:  

Let's see . . . after 9th grade I moved to Tacoma to live with an Aunt and help with her daughter. I lived there for about a year. Then, at 15.5 years of age my family moved to Mississippi. I lived there until I was 17 years old, then went to Oklahoma for about 6 months to stay with a cousin and help with her 4 children while she was pregnant. I moved back to Washington just before my 18th birthday. I was married by the the time I turned 21, and had a beautiful baby boy named Bradley who was born in May of 1983'. I became an Independent Home Care Technician (IHCT) and I enjoy it very much. Sometimes I alternate by working as a nanny to give my emotions a rest though. In 1986' we moved to Shelton and lived there until 1996', then we moved to Eastern WA for a year. I hated the dry heat, lack of trees, and black widow spiders that refused to vacate our home no matter how often we fumigated. Other than those things it was great, lol. I tolerated it for a year then moved back to Olympia, sans my husband. I moved back to Shelton in 2001' and became a live-in caregiver again. Up until recently, I w...Expand for more