CM229-17: Unit 7

From the topics given I have decided to write about ''How do you feel about peer reviews? What have your experiences with them been like?''

Peer reviews are a good thing because you get another view, another chance to see something you or someone else have missed. A peer review can only make your paper better. I have usually had good experiences with these reviews. What I appreciate is how someone approaches telling me something, because I know since I am not a perfect writer it is hard to correct someone else. When I first look at a paper I usually look at spelling/grammar errors and how the information in a paragraph flows.

CM229-17: Unit 6

Of the topics we were give I chose to write about ''Share what you have personally been dealing with the last six weeks.''

I love this time of year, people see to be so much nicer and I feel excitement about Christmas again, probably because of my son. As my husband I and I finish his Christmas shopping I think of what to do for my husband's birthday, he is a Christmas baby.

The past 2 1/2 weeks have been super hard, well hard for me anyway. I have been super sick and the doctors cannot seem to find a medicine that will work for me. How I have been feeling has forced me to stop baby sitting during the day and has made my grades suffer. Being a honor student I am scared because I have not being doing so great in either classes, but have not said anything to the teachers because I figured I could not get excused for really bad morning sickness. Yep that's right, when I went to the ER a few weeks ago it turns out this latest pregnancy is literally making me so sick I can hardly move. My husband has been wonderful though, he has done everything around the house plus taken care of me. I could not ask for a better man than my husband. Then last night as a pick me up he gave me my Christmas present early (-: A beautiful simple necklace that I can wear all the time.

I hope all of you enjoy the holidays and stay safe, as for me I am going to go lay back down.

Read from you guys next week!

CM229-17: Unit 5/ Wordless Thursday

Hello professor and class! The topic I chose to write about this week was ''How is school influencing your life at or up to this point?'' I do not think I like how this question is worded because I do not feel like school has influenced me. But I can say that by being in school I am preparing my self to support my family and being an example to my son. Being in school has added much more to my schedule but in turn it has made me even more disciplined and organized. School has done nothing more than add another positive thing to my life.

Wordless Thursday.....

Nothing much going on in the Miller household. I have been sick since Tuesday, this baby is kicking my butt already. I tease my husband that this is the last baby. Caleb, our son, still is not thrilled with the idea of a new baby. Today I asked him if he was going to be nice to the new baby, he then screamed no baby and ran off.
By the way, I have an amazing husband and I could not ask for better. I have been so sick that tonight he treated me to a candle light bath, what a guy (-:

CM229-17: Unit 4/ Family Wow Moment

     Hello professor and class! The blog discussion for this week was on plagiarism, something very serious. When you take someones work without giving them credit it insults them and you, it shows you are lazy. There are some things you cannot help copying, like a definition or statistics we just have to make sure we give credit where needed. We also need to remember to credit sources when we paraphrase because we got the information somewhere else. My opinion on paraphrasing is we should not use it unless you cannot avoid it, a lot of paraphrasing makes it seem like you have no thoughts of your on.

Family Wow Moment....

WOW, that is the best way I know to started the next part of this bog. I found out this morning I am expecting mine and my husband's second baby! Pure shock describes it, I just knew I was not pregnant and there it was, ''yes,'' plain as day on the pregnancy test. We are both very excited. Caleb, our 19 month old, is not very happy, lol. I know he does not understand yet but I asked him this morning if he wanted to be a big brother he screams no and takes off running. My husband just came back from a seven month deployment July 28, so I am calling this my deployment present. We've had names picked out since we were pregnant with Caleb; Jordan Lace or Americus Lorraine-Joy. We pray I carry this baby for 40 weeks and that he or she is healthy.

Take care everyone!

CM229-17: Unit 3/ Little Things, Big Blessings

Hello professor and class, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

One of the topics to discuss this week on our blogs was how we felt about being an online student. From my view point, it is GREAT! I am a stay at home mom and the flexibility of online schooling works for me. With my husband being in the Navy and not home all the time and no family, night classes were out of the question, daycare prices are ridiculous, so that left online schooling. I have two hours to work in the morning between when my husband leaves and my son wakes up, plus two hour naps a day, and about one hour at night depending. I could not ask for a better way to get my education.

This next part is just some of what I have been thinking about this week.....

Little things, big blessings. Have you ever thought about what makes us mad or upsets us? A lot of what we get upset about are things not going our way, and in reality nothing can go our way all the time. Do you ever find yourself getting aggravated that the baby is up crying or that you have to do the dishes? Look at it a different way: be thankful you have a healthy baby crying or that you have food to put on dishes. I do not want to put down how someone feels, but if you really think about it life is not bad. My cousin had a still birth at 26 weeks, her little girl would have been six months younger than my son. So every time I hear him cry I am thankful he is able to cry. Just, be thankful for what you have because it could all be taken away.

CM229-17: Welcome/Introducing Me

First I would like to welcome my classmates and professor for whom this blog is for. I have never blogged before but I keep a journal so I am hoping it is not too different.

This is the hard part for me, knowing how to start off....

     My name is Stephanie and I live in Norfolk Virginia with my husband and our 18th month old, Caleb. We are originally from Georgia but in Norfolk because my husband is in the Navy. My husband and I are high school sweethearts and got married the day before my high school graduation in May of 2008. Then April 15, 2009 at 4:54am we welcomed Caleb Christopher, who is the sunshine of our lives. We are an outdoors family, we enjoy being outside every chance we get. The best part of being outside besides just being able to spend time with each other is watching our son explore and touch everything.

     Brandon and I started dating in November of 2006 and have been best friends ever since. He is my hero, not a day goes by that he does not amaze me. He teaches me how to be slow to anger and how to forgive easy. I say that he is the nicer one between the two of us, he is just an all around good person. We have definitely been through a lot in four years. We are a multi racial family and being from the south that has added more than usual challenges to our relationship, but we have always worked with what has come our way. (And I'm sure at some point during this class you're going to read my blog baby and when you do know I LOVE YOU)

     Oh Caleb Christopher, we love him so much! He has/is the best little boy God could ever bless us with. He is such a good baby I swear the next one is going to be our devil child, haha. I could just go on and on about him, like I am sure any mother could. He is a Daddy's boy for sure, his face lights up when he sees him. His biggest achievements in the past few months are swimming and being day time potty trained. He loves SpongeBob and air planes.

     When I do get time to myself I love to read or journal. I used to draw and needlepoint, but I sadly do not have the time for it. My secret passion is taking pictures and doing different things with them, picture are so important to me.

Hope you guy enjoyed my first blog and come back for more!