Shizuka Higashiyama

Shizuka Higashiyama is the mother of Fabia and Serena and the wife of Donald Sheen who currently resides in Sierra Vista.Like her daughters,she is a birder and is an excellent cook.She is currently a culinary arts teacher at Makkari High School.She is also Fabia's travel agent during The 2010 Big Year.

History
Shizuka was born in Sendai in the Miyagi Prefecture of Japan in 1974.Her father was a soldier during The Battle of Attu.She moved to Tokyo when she was a teenager.She started birding after arriving in Tokyo and started playing soccer.When she was 17,she met Donald Sheen,an American tourist from Arizona and they started dating.In 1991,Donald managed to get Shizuka pregnant and they got married in Hawaii and had a 2-year honeymoon.On June 18,1992,she gave birth to Serena.They eventually moved to Portland,Oregon where they raised their daughter for 3 years,eventually moving to Sierra Vista,Arizona.Shizuka became pregnant again in 1995,causing Donald to send her and Serena back to Japan.On May 24,1996,she gave birth to Fabia.She taught her children how to identify birds and how to use binoculars and use a spotting scope.In 2001,Shizuka returned to America.This time,to Arizona to her husband's hometown of Sierra Vista.Shizuka applied for a job at Makkari High School as a culinary arts teacher and still teaches there.She is also the coach for both boy's and girl's soccer teams and is also the sponsor for The Makkari High School Young Birder's Society.

Appearance
Shizuka is in her late 30s and has the same blue hair and green eyes as her 2 children but has much longer hair than both Fabia and Serena.At home,she's usually seen wearing a wide variety of novelty t-shirts and an wearing an apron because she likes cooking.