{"id":379592,"date":"2013-03-18T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/i-love-my-bed\/"},"modified":"2013-03-18T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:01:00","slug":"i-love-my-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/i-love-my-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love My Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are days and weeks when we feel as if every minute is a mountainous climb.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Hours where we long for some reprieve from the (seemingly) endless distress.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This past week has been one of those eternities for me.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I took a new assignment at work and am dumbfounded by the lack of respect for adult authority.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Whereas my previous duties included involvement with predominately pre-kindergarten through third graders, my new interactions are mostly with third through sixth graders.<\/span><\/div>\n

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And though I have experienced ill-mannered\/challenging students in the past, I\u2019m not accustomed to the level of rude and irrational behavior by so many in one space at one time.<\/span><\/div>\n

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There are about ten hardcore haranguers; nine, ten, and eleven-year-olds who not only think they know how to do my job better than I, they are about as defiant as the day is long.<\/span><\/div>\n

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And some, like the one who apologized to me\u2014with a little boy grin on his face\u2014mere minutes before I found him trying to open the cubby where I store my personal belongings, appear to be downright devious.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t you fucking tell me what to do,\u201d one student said. This the same day he returned from a five-day suspension for disorderly, disrespectful, and dangerous behavior.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I have spent every spare minute of the past week pouring over my student roster in an effort to get to know the names and faces of the sixty-one students as soon as possible.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I have plotted and re-plotted seat assignments and pairing combinations in an effort to create some semblance of order, while meeting the good\/bad\/in-between behaviors.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The end of each day has found me thoroughly exhausted and several nights I\u2019ve fallen asleep, sitting up in my chair.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI love my bed,\u201d I said to Warren yesterday morning, as I stretched my limbs after a long and restful sleep.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Our pillow-top mattress is perfect for my tired body, the overstuffed, plush pillows cradle my head, and I feel oh-so<\/i> pampered between the layers of sheets in our king-sized bed.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I used to purchase inexpensive, low thread-count pieces, but after a family member gave me a spa set, I\u2019ll never buy anything but 450-count or higher (if I can find those at an affordable rice\u2026) Honestly, they not only last longer and wear better, I feel like I\u2019m in my own luxury hotel room every night I climb into bed.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI love my bed,\u201d is a common phrase that escapes my lips in the early morning hours.<\/span> <\/div>\n

<\/span>So much so, that, when Warren discovered a pair of \u201cI love my bed\u201d pajamas a few years ago, he bought them for me for Christmas.<\/span><\/span>
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Yep<\/i>. For real.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Whereas I usually find myself taking pictures of numerous events throughout the week, I was afraid I wasn\u2019t going to have a Happy Happens moment to share with you today.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Alas, it happened, just like the proverbial Shit Happens\u2026 Happy Happens\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n

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They\u2019re there, sometimes in unexpected places, and sometimes when we least expect them…<\/span><\/div>\n

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What about you? What Happy Moment(s) did you have this week? Share your story here!<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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Soon\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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