life so sweet

Hi there! Welcome to Life So Sweet, a lifestyle blog chronicling my life as a newlywed and second-year teacher in North Carolina’s Queen City. I’m Mary, a former financial analyst who traded in corporate america for the classroom after feeling called to join the fight for educational equity in our nation’s poorest schools. I now teach math and love on 90 incredible sixth graders at a school in south Charlotte.

A little bit about me:

 - I can almost always be found wearing my converse chucks.

 - My favorite place in the world is on my parent’s front porch in Indiana, drinking sweet tea in an old white rocker.

 - I met my husband on a dance floor on a frigid winter night in Minneapolis, MN. His dance moves wooed me then and still make me swoon … though now most dance parties take place in our kitchen.

- I spent the first 18 years of my life in the same home off a country road in small-town Indiana. Since then, I have lived in ten different houses, five different cities, and two different countries.

 - I have an irrational love for mashed potatoes. I cannot say no, and I will ask for seconds.

I don’t update this blog as often as I’d like, but when I do, I write about life as a newlywed, stories and challenges from Room C-16, and my sometimes laughable, sometimes triumphant experiments in Charlotte’s tiniest kitchen.

I'd love to connect with you! You can reach me at lifesosweetblog@gmail.com.