Recent Entries

• 06/07/2013

  June 6, 2013

   I am SO over this job market. I never imagined it would be so difficult to find another teaching job. It makes me sad because I know of several teachers who hate their jobs or are just biding their time until retirement, while I desperately want to teach because I love it so much. In…

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• 01/27/2013

  January 26, 2013

    I want a full time job so badly, as in like yesterday. I am so over this part-time teacher aiding crap. Maybe I would feel differently if I wasn't aiding in a two year old classroom? I am overqualified. I do is change diapers, and take directions from a person who doesn't even have…

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• Sleepers

  September 14, 2012

    Will is at a work function, two of the three kids are sleeping, so it seems like a perfect time for me to write. It's hard to find time these days, or much to write about for that matter. I read an entry by MandyMom the other day that completely hit home. The entry…

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• Catching Up

  August 11, 2012

    I LOVE reading about everything going on in the lives of my favorite Od'ers. I can relate so much to the things you are going through. I get so caught up reading about your lives that I never make it to my own page to actually write an entry.  I cannot believe that Abby…

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• Thirty One!

  June 8, 2012

    I'm beginning to think I should close out this diary to begin a new one. When I read past entries it's as if I am reading the life of someone else. Sometimes I wish I still lived that girl's life. She seems so blissfully unaware of what real, adult life can be like. That…

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• Funny stuff!!

  April 10, 2012

    Did I mention that I had a job interview last week? When asked about what my coworkers might say my weaknesses were, this is all my over tired mommy brain could come up with "I'm too funny". Yep....I seriously told them that was my weakness, and then reinforced it with "I me...

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• 03/28/2012

  March 27, 2012

    How can Abby be a *month* old tomorrow?! Time is flying by much too quickly with her! I have been very intentional with cherishing each moment with her. It's so easy to get distracted with the busy-ness of life, but I take her EVERYwhere with me. When I am not holding or wearing Abby,…

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• The rest of Abby’s birth story…

  March 7, 2012

  *Ugh....Jacob came home from school with a fever of 103 yesterday. He still has it today. Lethargy and the fever are his only symptoms. I am hoping and praying Abby doesn't get it, but there are only so many ways I can keep them separated when Will is at work. J wants me constantly, and…

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• Abby’s Birth story–part 1

  March 3, 2012

   Abigail Miriam Hanke is here!! Abby was born at 12:57 a.m. on March 1st. She was 6lbs, 10 oz of pure cuteness.  To say I'm in love is an understatement. Our birth story..... (sorry for all of the detail...wanting to document it for myself). I went to work as usual on Wednesday mor...

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