{"id":7553,"date":"2015-04-30T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:12:31","slug":"so-many-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/so-many-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Years Ago…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s sometimes odd to think back about what you were doing this time of the year 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 years ago. \u00a0April, for me, seems to be a very eventful month and a lot of big life events have happened this month.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I was up to in April:<\/p>\n

1 year ago<\/strong>…hubby and I sat in an Irish pub, seriously considering homeschool<\/a> for the first time after Honeybun started telling us she was stupid, hated school and didn’t like anything about herself.<\/p>\n

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2 years ago<\/strong>…I\u00a0was mourning the loss of my aunt<\/a> as I waited for Doodle’s arrival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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3 years ago<\/strong>…we were preparing for our move back to Florida, wrapping up loose ends in Dublin.<\/p>\n

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4 years ago<\/strong>…we were traipsing around Warsaw, Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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5 years ago<\/strong>…we were settling into life abroad and starting our European adventure with a trip to Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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6 years ago<\/strong>…I was finishing up my M.Ed. after a two semester delay due to an unexpected hospital stay with pneumonia <\/a>and an incomplete in my research class due to policies at my job (I didn’t get to walk at graduation since my program was online).<\/p>\n

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7 years ago<\/strong>…I said good-bye to my beloved Nana <\/a>just months before welcoming my sweet Honeybun.<\/p>\n

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10 years ago<\/strong>…Hubby and I graduated college, unsure of what our future held.<\/p>\n

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12 years ago<\/strong>…I\u00a0attended my first White Rose Formal with hubby (his fraternity’s annual formal dance\/party).<\/p>\n

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15 years ago<\/strong>…I was going through the worst break-up of my life when I lost my best friend after a prom fiasco.<\/p>\n

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20 years ago<\/strong>…I was in 5th grade and learning about the “facts of life” through the awkward school sex ed program.<\/p>\n

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25 years ago<\/strong>…I was in kindergarten.<\/p>\n

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