Head of School - A Family Affair

I really believe that it is hard to separate my family and Brainerd Baptist School. We have become ingrained into this great institution. My family is usually involved in some sort of BBS or BBC activity 6 days/nights a week and in many cases, all 7 days!
As some of you may know, I actually began my career at BBS back in 1996. I was a young newlywed preparing to become a middle school teacher and coach. I had full intentions of returning home to middle TN and coaching in the middle school that I went too (it was still a junior high back in the 80's when I was there). As we all have experienced, life usually charts a different course than we do for ourselves. Chattanooga has become home to us. All three of our children were born in Chattanooga, two of them while I was a young teacher here at BBS ( I was here until 2001), and Abigail came along during my tenure at David Brainerd. Something I learned early in the first couple of years in school administration is that it is a family affair. You really do not just hire a Head of School, you hire his family! When you spend as much time at school as we do, it becomes impossible to separate the two. The bond between our family and this school is even more significant because this is the only school my children have ever known. In their eyes, it was their school before it was mine. They were too young to remember that I actually taught at BBS before they began going to school there. Andrew and Aaron had been students at BBS for two years before Daddy came back to work at BBS in 2005. Fortunately for me, my children still LOVE this place and do not like to leave no matter how many hours they have been here. They never want to leave. Katrina and I both have taken it personal when they get upset because we are taking them home instead of letting them stay in ASC! Andrew and Aaron also think it's cool to walk through the building turning out the lights and locking the doors. (This should be a different post, this building will scare the junk out of you at night, so I enjoy their company!)
Since it is a family affair, I thought I would share our most recent family pictures with you. One of our school parents does a great job taking pictures and recently took our family photos. This was the first time we have ever had pictures done like this. We normally go to Wal-Mart or JC Penny and have pictures done there in the the studio. Pleasant came to our house and took some pictures of all of us - including Bruce and Tiny, our dachshunds. My children were also excited to get their picture made sitting in the famous chair! If you would like to see them, click here and scroll down!