Author: Val

Feel Good Friday

Here’s my Friday spiel: There’s a lot of crap in the world, so let’s talk about things that made us feel good this week…because it’s Friday – and that’s reason enough.  It’s easy enough to focus on the things that aren’t perfect or on drama, 

Hobbies and Motherhood

Hobbies and Motherhood

As I mentioned in another post, I started playing indoor volleyball again.  It’s a lot of fun and it’s a super-competitive league.  I feel like I’m doing well enough – my hitting and blocking is coming along and my defense is spot on (served up 

Photo Favorites : August 18-24 , 2014

Photo Favorites : August 18-24 , 2014

Since he started crawling the week before, he was all over the place this week!  It opened a whole new world to him to be able to play with what he wants, when he wants.  He did a little better sleeping this week and we 

Feel Good Friday

Feel Good Friday

Same thing this week…I almost forgot to post!   I know there were a few things that I meant to remember for this, but can’t. Here’s my spiel: There’s a lot of crap in the world, so let’s talk about things that made us feel good 

9.11

9.11

Remembering all of those who were affected on this day in 2001, and those who sacrificed for America as a result, in the years following the attacks. This day is a reminder that while our country feels so safe and isolated from attack compared to 

Abuse is not love, Mrs. Rice.

Abuse is not love, Mrs. Rice.

Let’s talk about this Ray Rice situation.  Let me start by saying thank God he was released from the Ravens.  Hopefully he is banned for life.  I know there are a lot of bad people in the NFL – who are role models for our 

Photo Favorites : August 11-17, 2014

Photo Favorites : August 11-17, 2014

We had a pretty calm week this week.  It’s probably the week that I took the least amount of pictures since Jenson was born.  Choosing the photo favorites for this week was a cinch.  It was my birthday week (Sunday) and I didn’t mean to 

Homemade Magic Shell

Homemade Magic Shell

We eat kind of a lot of ice cream up in here.  I like to jazz my ice cream up sometimes and I was sometimes tempted to buy Magic Shell (or the Reese’s version) at the grocery store, but it’s expensive and I feel like 

Feel Good Friday

There’s a lot of crap in the world (especially this week with I.S. activity again) , so let’s talk about things that made us feel good this week…because it’s Friday – and that’s reason enough.  It’s easy enough to focus on the things that aren’t 

Photo Favorites : August 4 – 10, 2014

Our life started to get back to normal this week.  Less busy, just able to relax and play with Jenson.  He was getting into crawling position constantly, but only going backwards or doing his sit/crawl position shuffle.  He’d get into crawling position and then sit,