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PARTNERS IN BUSINESS & LIFEBARBARA & JIMMY CROLEYand it is good to have a partner who can teach the basics and I can help more advanced students achieve higher ranks.Barbara Croley: If he is ever out sick, I jump in and teach for him. Throughout the years, training with children has taught us many lessons, too, on how to deal with di erent kids. Especially the kids with learning disabilities, or others with a physical disability. It's helped us even raising our boys, it helped us understand and advance personally and it has built our experience.PC Living: How old are your own kids now?Barbara Croley: 43, 32 and 28. Jimmy Joe Croley is the oldest. Michael Adam isthe middle child, and Jeremy is the youngest.PC Living: Now, the last question, what do you do for Valentine's Day as a couple?Jimmy Croley: Last Valentine's Day, we were in Hawaii!Barbara Croley: That was in March but yes, we celebrated my mom’s birthdayand Valentine's Day, and went to Hawaii.Barbara Croley: Last Valentine's Day, he came to my work, dressed in a suit with his guitar and he always does it, he sings me a song and brings me owers.He makes all my coworkers jealous ... he's done that a couple of times. We have pictures of it and video, too. All the time he's doing something. He's in a gospel band, too. In a group. A gospel group. He's wrote a couple songs for me and sang them for me. He sang an Elvis song one time.PC Living: That’s one of the best Valentine’s initiatives I have heard of.Barbara Croley: He does things like that all the time. Around Christmas he's bad about stu ed animals and ducks. He puts owers on my car seat. When I'm getting in the car, there's always something there. I nally said, "Stop," because I had to take all of the boxes of stu ed animals and gave them to my boys to give to their girlfriends. What am I going to do with all this stu ? I appreciate it, but it's like every day there was something in my car. He's a romantic. He's very romantic. He's been that way for 40 years.Jimmy Croley: (smiles)Jimmy and Barbara Croley teach Yoshukai Karate twice a week at the Lynn Haven Recreation Center, 2201 Recreation Drive, Lynn Haven. Learn more about Yoshukai atwykko.comwww.PanamaCityLiving.com • January - February 2017 • 53