For most of my life I lived on a 160-acre dairy farm located south of Spring Valley, Minnesota as the eldest of one sister and six brothers. I graduated from Spring Valley High School in 1984. I then went on to graduate from the College of St. Teresa in 1988 and later obtained my Masters Degree in Education from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth in 2004. I taught one year in Rochester, moved to Easton and taught eleven more years before moving into the position of Principal in 2001 at St. Casimir’s School. I married John Tibodeau in April of 1991 and continue to live happily ever after!