Miss Laura was born in Kirkland, Washington and was raised in the then rural, North Rose Hill neighborhood. Her house was surrounded by horse pastures, open fields and woods where she and her two sisters spent long days playing. Her favorite place in the yard was the dirt pile where she spent many hours digging tunnels and making mud pies. Childhood vacations were spent hiking and camping in the Cascades as well as taking road trips to museums and historic sites throughout the country. Many of these experiences are well known to her students as she brings them to life in the classroom through storytelling. Miss Laura attended local schools from kindergarten through high school, graduating with several of her kindergarten classmates. Throughout school, she was involved in vocal music programs and loved attending music festivals as a performer. Miss Laura discovered Waldorf Education when her elder daughter transferred to Three Cedars Waldorf School in the first grade. The following fall she began her new career as an Early Childhood teacher, first as a Preschool assistant, then as a Preschool teacher and finally, as a mixed-age Kindergarten teacher. She received her Early Childhood In-Service Teacher Training certification from Rudolf Steiner College, where she discovered a love of wood carving and a renewed enthusiasm for gardening, both of which she brings into her work as a teacher. Miss Laura currently teaches kindergarten in the Morning Glory class and has been at Three Cedars since 2002.