Events in the Life of Stephanie Lyons

  • Mom and Dad got married

  • Date of birth

  • Started Crawling

  • Spoke my first word at 1 year old: "dada"

  • Joined daycare/started reading/writing

  • Younger Brother was born

  • Grandmother died

  • Read my first chapter book

  • met my best friend, Sandra

  • Concerned about being in the "popular crowd"

  • Braces

  • Became captain of the Color Gaurd Team

  • Met my High School Sweetheart

  • Got suspend from school

  • Graduated from Salem High School

  • Started first semester in College

  • Broke up with my high school sweetheart

  • Confused about life and changed schools

  • Started Court Reporting School

  • Received my first academic award

  • Met 2nd boyfriend

  • Younger brother and I establish a friend relationship

  • Graduated Court Reporting School

  • Moved to Toledo for Court Reporting job

  • started realizing my boyfriend brought me down

  • Met current boyfriend

  • Quit Court Reporting job to go back to school for nursing

  • Got my first raise as a court reporter

  • Broke up with 2nd boyfriend

  • Got accepted into the nursing program

  • Realizing that my boyfriend is the one I love and best friend

  • Moving to Toledo, again

  • Graduating from Nursing School

  • buy first new car

  • having first child

  • Started to view my parents as "friends" and not just "parents"

  • getting a dog

  • Starting to realize that I put my wants second and my children's first

  • become successful in career

  • Go to Hawii with family

  • re-evaluting my life and where it's headed

  • put first child through college

  • Retiring from nursing

  • Taking care of parents

  • midlife crisis

  • have second child

  • angry that I'm getting older

  • have grandchildren

  • scared to die

  • happy and at peace with self

  • Death