I am still putting the fine tooth comb over her, but she'll be 56 later in the year and was high school sweethearts with Beau. Her family is the absolute opposite of his so she came from a lower middle class family where both her parents worked with both her and her brother basically being latch key kids. Charlotte and she have never get along, but have learned to fake it until they make it. She dropped out of college when she was pregnant with the eldest because she had awful morning sickness. She went back and graduated after the baby started school and finally got her degree in French and within the past decade started teaching at the French immersion private school in New Orleans. She was definitely the good cop when Beau was in the house when it came to the parents, but also could talk him down. Probably to the kids eyes they wouldn't get how they worked because she was the kind nurturer who told them to "do your best" because she wanted them learning and happy with life. She stayed at home through all kids though and enjoyed being the stay at home mom.