Daughter Ashley Martineau's Favorite Things!

Published: May 10, 2020, 5:44 p.m.

b'It\'s around early February 1982. I\'m 19 and Mark is 23. We\'ve been married around 2 1/2 years and I\'m getting a little bored and looking for "a little something new to do". \\xa0We\'re sitting across from each other at our favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Chiles in Keizer, Oregon. And I say to him, "You know we talked about waiting 5 years before starting our family? Maybe since it takes sometimes years to conceive, if we started now then in maybe in about 3 years I might be pregnant .... and Ashley\'s life started about two weeks later. She\'s our only surviving biological child and is creative, funny, smart, \\xa0interesting, loves God and hungers for His smile upon her life. She\'s been happily married since age 19 to her college sweetheart who loves her well. They live in Rhode Island where they\'re raising their three gorgeous (above average) :D \\xa0children \\xa0with lovely, slow moving river in the backyard of the home they call "River House". \\xa0She is a fiber artist and the author of Spinning and Dyeing Yarn. You can find her free spinning video series on her website How to Spin Yarn. She is also a dealer in the Boston / Providence area for SpinOlution spinning wheels, and engineers SpinOlution\\u2019s marketing, graphic design, social media, Spin Her Free fundraiser, dealership program, and website. Her husband Brian works in a lab at Harvard medical in Boston.\\xa0\\nEnjoy this little mother/ daughter conversation around things that delight Ashley, with some interesting little stories in-between.\\xa0\\n(You may hear 2 year old "Nub" faintly in the background from time to time. He was hanging out with the rest of the family for awhile where, apparently, he had some preferences he needed to voice).'