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Beth of A little bit of special is going to open up the week for us with her contribution to the The Monday Snapshot – an evolution of the MMM feature, meant to bring the PAIL blogroll to life by giving its members a chance to feature themselves and make new connections.

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Now, get to know a little more about Beth with her answers to the Monday Snapshot “5 Questions”:

1) How long have you been blogging and how did you get started?

I have been blogging for almost a year and a half. As I mention in my first blog post, I’ve started a bunch of blogs, but I’ve managed to stick with this one. I think it helped to have a focus: our struggles with conception. I got started, I think, mainly because I needed an outlet to vent. We were open with a few close friends about our struggles, but I wasn’t ready to post on Facebook about it. So I started the blog with the intent to talk about our struggle with infertility. Luckily for us, I only got nine posts into my blogging career before we became pregnant.

2) Tell us a little about your ALI journey and your family (3-4 sentences):

My husband and I had been married for just over five years when we decided it was time to start trying for our first baby. Due to my personal and family history, we had a hunch it was not going to be easy and pursued a variety of interventions sooner than later. Although we ended up pregnant without drugs exactly a year after we started, I believe if we hadn’t pursued the procedures and tests as quickly as we did, we wouldn’t have our beautiful baby girl today.

3) What makes you unique in the blogging world? (e.g. special talent, rare diagnosis, life experience)?

The way I approached both getting and being pregnant as well as how I interact with Hannah is strongly influenced by my experiences as a teacher. I have taught everything from 3 year-old kindergarten up through high school students and also supervised infant and toddler rooms at a day care. I am dual certified in music and special education so I have a variety of teaching techniques that I use with Hannah.

4) One word to describe yourself:

planner

5) What blog or website (IF or not) would you recommend to others? Why?

Alphamom . I love this blog! I found it while I was pregnant and followed along with the weekly updates to see what I probably had to look forward to. I have continued to read it as the letters and articles often relate to things that I am going through with Hannah.

As always, we want to see your Monday Snapshot as well, so please comment below with a link to your post– and of course, go visit Beth at A little bit of special.

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ozifrog says: June 10, 2013 at 10:02 AM She’s such a cutie! Glad your trip down the infertility byway was a short one… My contribution to the Monday snapshot is here http://didiforget.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/the-monday-snapshot-peekaboo-jman/ Reply

She’s such a cutie! Glad your trip down the infertility byway was a short one… My contribution to the Monday snapshot is here http://didiforget.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/the-monday-snapshot-peekaboo-jman/

slese1014 says: June 10, 2013 at 12:26 PM She’s adorable. And I love the line “Things aren’t perfect, but we are loving every minute of it.” That sums it up for me. Great to get to know you…my contribution is in the trackbacks below Reply

She’s adorable. And I love the line “Things aren’t perfect, but we are loving every minute of it.” That sums it up for me. Great to get to know you…my contribution is in the trackbacks below

Stephanie says: June 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM What a doll!! That’s awesome that you only needed to post a handful of times before getting pregnant. Here’s my contribution this week: http://blawndesblawg.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-monday-snapshot-she-really-does.html Reply

What a doll!! That’s awesome that you only needed to post a handful of times before getting pregnant. Here’s my contribution this week: http://blawndesblawg.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-monday-snapshot-she-really-does.html

kaseypowers says: June 10, 2013 at 2:29 PM I never take enough pictures of us together. But I realized last week I have even fewer with Simon and Dad. So that was this weekend’s snapshot. http://www.powersfullife.com/2013/06/10/the-monday-snapshot-sprinklers/ Reply kaseypowers says: June 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM Enough pictures of us together either. Glad you were able to get this great one. That’s what the rest of that sentence was supposed to read. Drat not making sure my typing catches up to my brain… Reply

I never take enough pictures of us together. But I realized last week I have even fewer with Simon and Dad. So that was this weekend’s snapshot. http://www.powersfullife.com/2013/06/10/the-monday-snapshot-sprinklers/

kaseypowers says: June 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM Enough pictures of us together either. Glad you were able to get this great one. That’s what the rest of that sentence was supposed to read. Drat not making sure my typing catches up to my brain… Reply

Enough pictures of us together either. Glad you were able to get this great one. That’s what the rest of that sentence was supposed to read. Drat not making sure my typing catches up to my brain…

Kelly says: June 11, 2013 at 10:47 AM This is an amazing picture! You both look so happy and beautiful. We don’t have enough picture of half pint and I either! Reply

This is an amazing picture! You both look so happy and beautiful.

We don’t have enough picture of half pint and I either!

jjiraffe says: June 11, 2013 at 10:57 PM You look a lot like Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights (I loved that show) Thanks for the Alphamom recommendation! I’ll check it out… Reply

You look a lot like Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights (I loved that show) Thanks for the Alphamom recommendation! I’ll check it out…

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