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The Overachiever Has Been Overachieved

April 8, 2009 By Carole

As you may have realized by now, I am a bit of an overachiever.  I try my best at things and I usually succeed.  This lifestyle goes way back to my school days.  I always did all my homework and I never skipped school.  I got good grades.  While I only managed to get straight A’s once, I  usually earned mostly A’s with a stray B or two.  Never a C.  I graduated 30th in my high school class of 1100.  I graduated from college with honors and I finished grad school with high honors.  I did well on my SATs and MATs.  You get the idea.

One thing, though, that I wasn’t able to do was become a member of the National Honor Society.  You see, I had this D once.  It was in geometry in 10th grade and it was only for one term but it was enough to make me ineligible for NHS at my school.  This hasn’t necessarily bothered me but I’ve always felt like a failure when it comes to this part of my high school experience.

Are you wondering where I’m going with this?

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(this picture is from last September, it’s one of my favorites of Hannah)

Last night Hannah was inducted into the National Honor Society.  Hannah has always been a good student but she works hard for her grades.  And I think it’s probably been a little difficult to live up to her mother’s legacy.  Not now, though.  Now she’s done something I never managed to do.

And suddenly it just doesn’t matter anymore that I wasn’t in NHS because now my kid is.  And I think that’s even better.  In fact, I couldn’t be more proud.

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  1. CaroleP says

    April 8, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Congratulations Hannah!!
    You deserve it! You earned it! My DG was in NHS and at first don’t think she realized the significance. Now in her first year of college she does. She made us all proud, as I can see you’ve made your mom. Keep up the good work!
    Congrats to you mom, too. She’s doing a good job!

  2. LisaK says

    April 8, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Congratulations!

  3. Amy says

    April 8, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    That is so great. Congrats to Hannah!!

  4. Joy says

    April 8, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Fantastic – congratulations, Hannah, way to go!!!

  5. Leslie says

    April 8, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    She has beauty AND brains! Congrats to Hannah on a great accomplishment.

  6. Laurie says

    April 8, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    Congratulations to both of you on all your hard work!

  7. (formerly) no-blog-rachel says

    April 8, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Is that cool or what?! Congratulations to Hannah (and her proud mom)!

  8. Emily says

    April 9, 2009 at 7:58 am

    Go, Hannah! Did you have to wear a big poster board key? I don’t know why they made us do that.

    PS I made a D in Economics. Luckily I was in 8th grade when it happened and I don’t tell many people. My teacher and I had Philosophical Differences.

  9. JessaLu says

    April 9, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Our kids are supposed to exceed us – congratulations to you both. :o)

  10. Lucia says

    April 9, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Huge congrats to both of you! I’ll have to tell Miss B about this. My high school didn’t have NHS, but hers does.

  11. Birdsong says

    April 9, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    Yea for Hannah! That is such an achievement, and of course she must have gotten a lot of her brains from you (oh, and the rest from Dale!).

  12. Teyani says

    April 10, 2009 at 1:17 am

    Congrats to hannah!! what a fabulous achievement!!!

  13. maryse says

    April 10, 2009 at 8:04 am

    congratulations hannah!!!!!!!!

  14. Hillary says

    April 10, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Huge congratulations! That is a fabulous achievement.

  15. Jan says

    April 12, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    National Honor Society inductions…a rite of spring! Congratulations to Hannah!! A wonderful accomplishment.

  16. Cynthia says

    April 17, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Congratulations Hannah! No wonder you are so proud Mom! (she sounds like a chip off the block really).

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