Life has been a BLESSING.......

I hope you are enjoying the influx of updates. I know I am especially enjoying them along with the recent photos of you and your families........even the dogs. I am hoping the recent photos help me recognize most of you. I am finding that most of you look the same. It is so interesting to me to read about the different places you are in your lives. (Alaska, Iraq, no kids, four kids, going to school, sending kids off to college, sending them off to Kindergarten)



Michele McCann Steele is our next update. A lot of us go way back to Boyet with Michele. It was nice to hear from her.
Michele writes:

Hello Everyone,
It has been a long time. It is still hard for me to believe that it has been twenty years already! WOW! Time has really flown. I had to come to the realization that it had been twenty years when my younger brother Joshua, who will be senior at Northshore next year informed me he would be graduating and wanted my help to make his college prep plans...HMM..

Let's see, where should I start. Right after I graduated from Northshore, I attended Southern University at New Orleans for 2 years pursuing a degree Social Work and Urban Studies. Going into my junior year a SUNO in 1989, my father passed away that Christmas leaving behind mother, myself being the oldest and my other 4 siblings (the youngest being my brother Joshua who was not a year old). At that point I dropped out of college for a little while worked, traveled and helped support my mom and siblings. During this time I did a lot of soul searching that led me on a journey of self-discovery and acceptance. My experiences helped me to comprehend where I had come from and where I needed to go. I found in my travels and life experiences, that my fulfillment came from one-on-one contact with people. So while trying to heal myself and learning to love me, I found that I had a "GREAT LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE."

Soon after this I returned to college and shortly after met my soon to be husband Michael. I graduated from Nunez Community College with an AA in Early Childhood Education in 1994. After graduating I got married and became Mrs. Michele Steele and then a mom.
My life totally changed! At this point I decided to take some time off to enjoy my son. Then in 2001 my daughter was born. During my child rearing times I was still a part time student. I later continued my education and got my BA in Sociology with a minor in African American Studies in 2004 from UNO. My husband Michael and I have been married now for 14 years and have two wonderfully expensive children. Christopher, 13 and Kaylin who is 6.

My family and I currently reside in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I currently work for Dubuis Health Systems as a Clinical Liason (Patient Advocate) and YES still a student. I am currently enrolled in LAMAR State University, pursuing my MA in Social Work and my husband is the General Manager for several of the Waffle House's in SW Louisiana.

Overall life has been a BLESSING. I look forward to seeing everyone again...Be Blessed...
Bye for now...

You look so good with long hair. As long as I have known you through school, your hair was always short.

Yesterday was a year ago that I started the blog.........what a difference a year makes?? I want to thank all of you who have kept up reading and sending in emails. Over the past year, I have received quite a few emails from friends and acquaintances from other schools and under class men from NHS. I recently received one from a NHS under class man, Jill Johnson Meaux (Class of 89).

LOOK http://nhsclassof89.blogspot.com/ She said that I inspired her. BUT I must say.......it was not "me" that inspired her. It was you. Without all of you wonderful participants, there would not have been a blog. Thanks for sharing you're past twenty years with us. Without you, I would have had no reason to keep up the blog. I would have had no excuse to avoid my house work.

NOW, let's go have a party!!! The count down is on............12 more days.