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Hello and thank you for checking out my blog. I wanted to start my blog off with an introduction of who I am and where I come from. My blog will consist of the real happens of me: fitness, motherhood, and educator.
I was born to the the parents of Barbara Jones-Brown and Larry Edwards on September 15, 1986. I resided with my biological mother until I was six years old. At the time myself and three of my siblings were placed into foster care. I moved around for two year until I was placed in my final foster home where I resided until I went off to college.
As a child I went through a lot. I have experienced physical abuse, mental abuse, and sexual abuse. Just when you start to think you have it bad there is always someone else who has it worst than you. I could have given up, but wanted a lot more for myself.
In elementary I was a hell raiser. I stayed doing something. I wasn't the best reader, but I excelled at math. I was retained in the third grade. I will never forget my fourth grade year of school. I attended Clarke Street Elementary School. This particular year we had a lot of Teach for America teachers. I had a fourth grade teacher name Dan Carson. He called my foster mom at the time, Patricia Alexander-Brown and told her that they needed to meet. During the meeting Mr. Carson told my mom that I was disrupting his class, but that I had potential. During this meeting he made a few suggestions, one of them was for me to join the chess team, which he was the leader of. During that year I did a whole 360. My grades changed and I became an excellent chess player.
It wasn't until seventh grade where I started to act out again. Middle school was rough for me, but somehow I manged to get through. Middle school was where I first became sexually active. I am not proud of it now, but life happened. I cheered my eighth grade year and fell in love with it.
High school was another beast for me. Again I became sexually active, which I am not proud of, but it happened. I cheered all four years. During high school I was lucky to come across a teacher who took me under her wing my tenth grade year, Cassandra Evans. I joined FCCLA and competed on the state and national level. During tenth grade I got pregnant, but miscarried. I felt as if I was giving a second chance at life. During my junior year my boyfriend and I broke up and I ended up talking to a guy who had always told me I would be his girlfriend when I turned 18 years old. Towards the end of my junior year I found out that I was pregnant, but I kept it from my mother for six months. I hid it because I was afraid of her disappointing her. I had already been given a second chance and here I was again, pregnant. After my cheerleading coach had heard the rumors she gave me a week to tell my mom. My mom wasn't as mad as I thought she would be, but she tell me I had to finish school.
As a pregnant senior taking honors classes it was far from easy. I gave birth to Christoper Isaiah Jones on December 17, 2004. When school started back up after Christmas break I went back and finished my senior year. I graduated as part of the top 25% of my class. When my aunt agreed to take care of Chris while I attended college I was so thankful. I was accepted into 7 colleges, but I decided to attend the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It was not easy leaving my baby, but I had too. All I wanted to do is provide him with a better life than I had. I never went without, but I wanted him to have so much more. Chris stay in Henderson with my aunt for three years. Every weekend I came home to care for him. During December 2005 I finally got the opportunity to meet my biological father, Larry Edwards. I worked as a Community Advisor my sophomore and junior year of college. My last two years of college I brought Chris to Greensboro to live with me. During one of the years I worked a full time job while attending college full time. During my last semester my dad came to live with me so he could help out with Chris. At the time I was student teaching during the dad and working full time second shift at Citi Cards.
This is only my life up until 2010... There is so much more to discuss, but this is just a little introduction of me, Sharita Antoinette Jones. Follow my blog. I promise you won't regret it.