Reality check
Maura‘s future mother-in-law (and Matt’s mother, a lady who has more pictures of me during my adolescence than my own parents) sent me this picture from the shower this weekend:
It’s a nice picture, and JR looks cute (AS ALWAYS).
But, good grief, I look EXHAUSTED.
Granted, it had been a very busy week and weekend, and I’m fairly sure I’m being more harsh here than most people would. But still. It just kind of provides a visual confirmation of how I’ve been feeling lately.
I’m spread a little thin, I guess you could say. I basically work three jobs, one of them part time, the others sort of hinting at such but really aren’t. Top that off with being the primary caregiver for a growing and boisterous young man, and all signs point to me feeling strung out most of the time.
So strung out that I *might* have had a semi-breakdown at the dinner table tonight. Possibly. And by possibly I mean, yes I did.
Sigh.
So there’s that. I have no clue what to do about any of these things, but I guess admitting there’s a problem is half the battle, right?
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I love your hair! And you look beautiful in this picture, so you’re crazy!
I don’t know what you look like every day, but you look beautiful in this picture. So if you can do all of that and be that exhausted and still look this good, girl, you must be doing something right!!
Hang in there… we all need a good breakdown at the dinner table every once in a while!
Your hair is so long! (Well, relatively long, since I’ve always known you with really short hair.) And you look great in this picture.
I agree that you look great. Yesterday must have been mommy break down day, as I had a break down on the couch while trying to put Ava to sleep.
Girl, when I saw that picture I thought “dang! Valerie is gorgeous” and I almost forwarded it to you until I realize that and the other 38 pictures were already sitting in your inbox.
When things settle a bit for me, I’ll take that chunka off your hands OR ask Nancy too and we can go have an old fashion girl-date.
How did someone so tiny as you have birth such an enormous child? He is adorable and looks like a real life cabbage patch kid. I sort of want to eat those cheeks.
And even though you might be exhausted, you still remember to smile with your eyes in this picture, so really, you’re a step ahead of most of us.
Exhausted? Seriously? That’s not what I thought AT ALL. I thought, geez, she looks great, I cannot believe she just had a baby. And then I wished I lived near you so I could pinch hims wittle cheeks cuz hims is adorable!