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Split-Shift Parenting: Burnout

by beth January 11, 2010

poster avail­able from despair, inc. The school semes­ter offi­cially starts today for me, mean­ing I’m back in the class­room lec­tur­ing, grad­ing and guid­ing stu­dents. While I love work­ing with stu­dents and I love a good dis­cus­sion about all things soci­o­log­i­cal, I can state with­out any hes­i­ta­tion that I do not love the sched­ule itself. It […]

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9 Months

by beth December 7, 2009

It’s been nearly 9 months since D-man joined the fam­ily. In the time since the day we met face to face in the hos­pi­tal a lot has stayed the same & a lot has changed. One the biggest changes is I am no longer in school. Today I picked up my cap & gown for […]

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It’s Official: Mom, Ph.D.

by beth November 25, 2009

The other day I arrived in my Depart­ment, after feel­ing that my nerves were going to push me over the edge. That edge where you fall into an abyss of ran­dom def­i­n­i­tions and infor­ma­tion float­ing around your head but none of it makes ANY SENSE AT ALL!! ALL morn­ing long & by all morn­ing I […]

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Homemade Books

by beth November 12, 2009

When I came down­stairs today the kids were mak­ing me these books.  Hubby was get­ting ready for work & they were hard at work them­selves.  My old­est was lead­ing the charge, he wanted to get it done before we left to take him to school. It was an intense ses­sion of cre­ativ­ity at hand. I love […]

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