Meet Mrs. Smrz

Hello! I am the K4 Teacher here at St. Mary's Visitation School in Elm Grove. My family consists of my husband, Mike, my son, Matthew, and my daughter, Madison. We are parish members of St. Joseph Congregation in Wauwatosa. I grew up the youngest of three children in the town of Erin and went to Holy Hill every week for church and worked there as a teenager! ( I was married there too.) I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Eventually I came to the realization that the Lord was leading me to take another path and I received my teaching license from Mount Mary College. Before teaching here at St. Mary's, I worked as a preschool teacher at Curiosity Corner Nursery School in Wauwatosa for eight years. I love working with children and learning!! In my spare time I like to work out. You can find me most mornings at the West Suburban YMCA attending exercise classes and running. I also love to read!! I love history and Washington, D.C., is one of my favorite places to visit. I am a faithful fan of the Milwaukee Brewers and Wisconsin Badgers.

Here is a picture of my family taken at the Gettysburg cemetery, very near the location where President Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.

This is a much more recent photo taken when we dropped Madison off at the University of Georgia on August 7, 2018. They grow fast. Treasure every moment with them!