Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Employed until 2022 & I VOTED!!!!!

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I signed my new contract this weekend. With the new 3 year contract we are reviewed half-way through (in the beginning of this semester) a...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

My CRAZY Life

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Things have calmed down somewhat, but there is still plenty of CRAZY to come!! If you're wondering about my brother-in-law , he had a ...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Bad News (extended family)

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I need to sleep, but I also needed to share this before the event. I haven't blogged much about this over the years, especially becaus...
Monday, April 16, 2018

The TEN YEAR Anniversary of my PhD Dissertation Defense!!!

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Ten years ago today I defended my dissertation. It was Wonderful! ;-) Later, in the following weeks, it would get quite stressful, but th...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Did she finally come around?

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Last week my mom surprised me. When I left Brazil 22 years ago next June, my mom desperately sobbed and cried at the airport. Over the yea...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Safely Back!

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Both of my "babies" made it back safely! My washer and drier were very full last night, but my heart was fuller! ;-) P.S. the ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Childless for Four Days...

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... after having an only son for a week. In about 18 hours I won't be childless anymore and in about 20-21 hours our family will be co...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

16 Years a Mother/ Trip Update

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On Friday my oldest turned 16 and I enjoyed spending about half an hour with him right next to me in our bed (with my husband putting away h...
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Friday, February 09, 2018

Glimpse of my Food Vocab Presentation

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Edited to add another image that I hope will work. This is the first page of the presentation that pulled an all nighter to prepare. It...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Yoga!!!

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Finally, after nearly two months, I made it to yoga this morning!! I was really sad that it didn't work out for me to go during the whol...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

An All Nighter

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I pulled an all nighter. And all I got to show for it was a few NI ("needs improvement") categories in my class observation eval...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018

(Long Overdue) Update

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I'm sure I have one or more posts with this exact same* title, but I don't mind.    *this is possibly one of those "wrong,...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

Blogging and Motherhood - or When Heather Armstrong Made Me Cry (back in 2008)

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WOW... This post took nearly TEN YEARS to see the light of day, how crazy is that?!? I thought of it in May of 2008, began to write it in Fe...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The worst or the best moment to become a citizen?

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So, yeah... Our citizenship interview is scheduled for Thursday. I didn't really blog about this, I only mentioned it in passing in on...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

From Summer to Winter — Bedding edition ;-)

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This is one of the things I did on January first. It was/is so cold this year that even though I adore our two year old Spring & Summer ...
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Last Day/ First Day

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"Yesterday"  (meaning Tuesday, 1/16, I'm still awake, so it's still Wednesday for me) was my last day of the winter break,...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Goodbye Spring-Summer Look, Hello Fall-Winter! (Living-Room edition)

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I wrote most of this post on 10/2, but only managed to upload the photos on 11/23/17 & 1/15/18! This post is almost two months overdue!...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Family Internationalization - 2018 Update

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Eleven and a half years ago in 2006, I documented our family's "internationalization" on the blog when my brother moved to Ch...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Retroactive Blogging or 17/71

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Written last week on 1/4 : It's not about the 77 posts, it's more about getting posts from last year out of the drafts folder and s...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

In 2018...

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... I hope no one in our family dies (first thing I wrote back in Dec. 2016 ). Thankfully nobody did in 2017, unlike 2016. I think this will...