Question:
I want to start off by thanking everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes that you sent me this past weekend ! I was incredibly blessed and quite overwhelmed by the significant response and all the encouraging thoughts and notes . Thank you ! Thank you for thinking of me!I I am still catching up here and have n't read all of them yet , but I surely will !

Why did people send me birthday wishes ?
Answer:
They wanted to let me know they cared

Question:
So I finished my first week as an official teacher . It 's actually MY classroom and somehow ( despite the 12 + hours I ' ve spent there almost everyday for the past 2 1/2 weeks ) , it still has n't fully hit me . I ' ve spent so long waiting for my career to begin and it finally has .

Why does the narrator seem to be in so much awe ?
Answer:
They are finally teaching .

Question:
Mom 's walking down Memory Lane again . You can always tell when she does that because she heads for the book shelve where she keeps the photo albums . She 's not a big picture taker but she inherited my grandma 's photos so she 's got lots of stuff from when she was a little kid .

What might the narrator 's mom be doing in the photos of herself in her inherited albums ?
Answer:
She might have photos of herself heading off to school on her first day in kindergarten .

Question:
I think they say some discomfort so women are n't scared but to me it was extremely painful and I cried the entire time I was on the table ( and the entire drive home ) . Good thing about this test is that the results are right there on the screen so there is no waiting . We have good news !

What did they just get done with ?
Answer:
a medical exam