We’ve been busy with a lot of…

JR,family,favorite things,life — Valerie on January 23, 2012 at 4:44 pm


Mess making.


Lego building.


Coffee drinking.


Responsibility learning.


Pill taking.


Heart breaking.

How about you?

Blessed

JR,family,hubs,life,snippet — Valerie on November 24, 2011 at 11:13 pm

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Happy Halloween!

JR,family — Valerie on October 31, 2011 at 5:18 pm

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(Costume based on this tutorial from Mighty Girl)

Ew

dammit,family — Valerie on October 22, 2011 at 6:08 pm

A recent text message conversation between Ross and I while he was in
Blacksburg at a football game.

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My guys

JR,family,hubs — Valerie on October 15, 2011 at 11:24 pm

I know I apologized for image-only entries in my last post, but good gravy. My heeeeaaaaart.

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(Also: Go Hokies)

Pause. Watch. Remember.

JR,family,favorite things — Valerie on September 1, 2011 at 9:54 pm

I know that, for whatever reason, this image is going to be burned into my memory forever. This boy…

Sick day

JR,family — Valerie on August 19, 2011 at 12:49 pm

JR came home from school yesterday “not feelin’ gooooooood” and complaining that his ear, tummy, back, and head hurt. Of course this was all revealed at 5pm, right when the doctor’s office was closed for the evening.

So we soldiered on and this morning it was obvious that he had gotten worse. See, he never gets sick and is so baffled by the concept of feeling poorly that he spends his illnesses both sick AND full of woe. I called the doctor first thing and snagged an appointment for 11am.

And then he threw up all over me. A quick call back to the doctor got us an appointment right away.

Turns out it’s just a stomach bug (as evidenced by the vomit he left strewn about the doctor’s office). All of the other symptoms are just from feeling like, well, ass to put it bluntly.

While I don’t like it when JR is sick, that’s when I feel most competent as a parent. His needs are concrete and usually involve lots of cleaning him up and holding him. The constant thought running through my head is “I’ve got this.”

Plus, I’m really good at spending the day on the couch.

Savor

JR,family,life — Valerie on August 17, 2011 at 10:26 pm

A talk

family,the sads — Valerie on August 16, 2011 at 9:37 pm

“Why you taking medicine, Mama?”

“Well, sometimes it’s hard for me to be happy, and I’m just taking this medicine for a little while to help me feel better.”

“Am I happy?”

“I really, really hope so.”

“I like it when you’re happy. It make me sooooo happy!”

“Same here, bud.”

(Just as an update, things are really good right now. The good days are outnumbering the bad by an incredible margin, and I’m feeling great. To those of you who have been so supportive through this, well, there are warm feelings happening in my heart area thanks to you.)

Me and him

JR,family,favorite things — Valerie on May 23, 2011 at 2:51 pm

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