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Hangin' with Hannah

I have worked every summer since I have been in graduate school. In the past I worked three long days and then had the the rest of the week and weekend off. This year, I had to work four days, usually five, for shorter periods of time to keep various projects going. Some days are full of meetings and working at research sites and some days I just have to go and write so I dress more casually. 

Here is Hannah and I before work on a casual day wearing our Wonder Woman shirts. My sister gave Hannah hers and then Hannah located one to match in a store so I bought it. 



Hannah likes to get stuff in the mail. So I set it up so that she gets a small inexpensive book every week during the summer. When there is a package, the postal employee leaves a key in our smaller box to a bigger one at the bottom of the rows of boxes for our street. She goes out to look for a key every day. Sometimes I find other fun stuff too, like these great minion goggles and yellow beanie. I think I am going to have to use them for Halloween and call it good. She looks so cute like this.


Hannah has also become fastidious about what we need in terms of foodstuffs. She lets me know when we need to go to the grocery store for essentials like licorice. We were on our way to the store because we also needed some other items when she fell asleep. I can leave a sleeping child in a car, especially not in the heat we have here and so in she came in my arms and I carried her longways and pushed the cart. This is difficult, honestly. At one point I sat down to rest in the chairs where people wait for medication by the pharmacy and took a picture so I could remember when she was a little girl and could sleep soundly in the heat of day while I carried her and pushed a shopping cart.


Yes. Hannah is wearing another minion shirt. I haven't been much of a movie goer since I had her, but we all went to Inside Out and the Minion movie this summer. She said she liked Inside Out better, but she prefers the minion accoutrements.

Fall semester starts August 17th. Hannah starts preschool September 9th.

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