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Today, I was teaching my students about primary documents. I was explaining the difference between primary and secondary sources, and I thought about my own primary source for my life: this blog.

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When you're growing up in a family where children are always coming and going, you're always watching kids grow up beginning at different times. You miss out on the beginning of lives, or you only see the first few months of a baby's start in the world.

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Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope that you've all had an enjoyable day with loved ones, whether they be your significant other, children, siblings, or parents!

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It's finally the end of the week but there's no slowing down for me anytime soon. I need to work on school-related projects all weekend, and I don't even get a day off on Monday. Instead, I have to be up at my campus at 8:00am and be part of a full day workshop until 3:00pm. Sheesh! At least I can sleep past 6:30am tomorrow! I'm so tired that I feel like I can just collapse at any minute!

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Well it looks like it's night three of going to bed way too late, but there's nothing much I can do about that. The good news is that I'm all prepared for our Valentine's Day party tomorrow, and my little sisters were extremely happy with their cupcakes for their parties today. I'm exhausted, but totally ready to party tomorrow afternoon!

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Today was certainly a day full of preparations. Between finishing up all of the cupcakes for everyone's Valentine's parties and getting ready to be observed by my supervisor for the first time in student teaching tomorrow, I've been keeping busy all day. Plus, my mom had her hands full tonight trying to get my little sisters to write out their Valentine's cards (because yes, don't judge, we're one of those houses that unfortunately leaves a lot to the last minute... you know that you do it too!).

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Well it's 11pm, and I know that as soon as my mom sees that I'm posting this late, she's going to question me on why I wasn't sleeping already. I have to get up so early for student teaching that I usually go to bed by 10pm every night. It's crazy! But tonight I had to finish taking cupcakes out of the oven and then was catching up with a friend, so I'm okay with being tired tomorrow.

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Do you ever want something so badly that you can't think about anything else? That's how I'm feeling tonight.

I've been sitting here working on my novel for a while, and not only have I finished editing all five chapters that I had already written, but I had a sudden inspiration for the last chapter and how I want the book to end, so I started writing that. I feel like I'm in the zone tonight, and I just can't wait to be able to finish this novel.