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Adventures with Hannah

I traveled a lot in January and February by myself because of work, but Hannah and I agreed that she could come to Indiana with me to visit my sister and her family right before President's Day. She was really excited to play with her cousins. 


Here she is close to tears in the Indianapolis airport, not wanting to leave. When she went through security her little lip was quivering and she secured the compassion of the TSA officer and he gave a sticker. It was nice of him, but it didn't work.


When I got home from all my traveling (I had been about 10, 000 miles since December) I was pretty tired and I canceled a lot of my schedule and just stayed home to nap and catch up on my writing. At night, Hannah still lets me rock her to sleep and here is a photo of her capturing how we both felt.


This last Friday was pajama day at preschool. The kids dressed in their pajamas and brought their sleep toys to show the class. Then they made pancakes for a snack. I had the all-important job of making sure that the kids didn't burn themselves on the griddle, which I must say I did well. Hannah wore her glow-in-the-dark skeleton pajamas. She has 2-3 pair in different colors and she thinks they are the neatest thing. I am not sure what will happen when she grows out of them.


I wore pajamas too that consisted of Nike sweatpants, an old blue American Eagle sweatshirt, and a headband. I am usually dressed in business attire to pick Hannah up and drop her off, so my fellow preschool parents got a real treat. I forewent a photo of myself.

As far as the dissertation goes, I have half of chapter 4 and 2/3 of chapter 5 left. I applied for graduation, but I don't know if I am going to make it for May. Probably August is more realistic. My adviser is in Arizona and hasn't read my first three chapters and one of my committee members went to the hospital and won't be back for three months. I had to take her class for the rest of the semester but I doubt she will be able to look at my dissertation and I can't switch committee members without the approval of my chair, which I sought and was denied. But I am still writing and I am hopeful something will work out.

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Mike and LuAnn (Nelson) Aldred said…
Cute pictures! Some day we hope to have some fun adventures with Hannah too! Love the blog posts. She is so tiny and cute like her mother was and is! Hugs...
March 2, 2016 at 3:12 PM
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