Taking the bad with the good

Some things are good. Some things are bad. Sometimes you get a little of each…

I can only spot ONE good thing in this picture. (hint—she’s wearing a bow)

Rose is glad that she doesn’t have to fold laundry yet. Lucky!

Is Jay’s skull going to have a permanent dent in it? I think he’s had a big bruise in roughly the same spot for 75% of his life!

Speaking of injuries, did you know that it costs $2500 to faint? About 2 weeks ago, Jeff got dizzy and nearly passed out while helping a computer student at work. So they called an ambulance and carted him off to the ER with irregular heart readouts. Turns out he’s perfectly fine, and the almost-passing out thing was a random, unexplained occurrence. Too BAD that diagnosis was so pricey! But GOOD thing Jeff is healthy and happy. I will grudgingly admit that peace of mind where heart health is concerned probably is worth that expensive, uninsured visit to the ER.
[Side note: it was really weird for me to stand next to a hospital bed with Jeff in the bed. In the past year, he’s been at my sickbed in the hospital SO many times! I hate being sick, but I think I may hate watching someone I love be sick even more].

When Jay wakes up too early and pitter-patters over to his Daddy, Jeff puts him back in his room and closes the door (Jay can’t open it by himself). He usually gets bored in there if he doesn’t go back to sleep, and one morning I discovered that he had been trying to play with Rose! He gave her an extra green blanket and 3 toys. It was good for her tired parents that she didn’t wake up!

Jay is such a friendly boy! He loves it when there are random kids at the park—he makes friends so fast! He walks up, Mr. Cheerful- Smiley-Confidence, and says “HIIII!!!!” in this big happy voice. He scares some kids away, but others enjoy him. Jeff and I are kind of…the more reserved type, so it cracks us up when Jay just waltzes on over to big kids and makes friends instantly (he didn’t get that gene from either of his parents). He’s awesome.

Rose had her first swing ride at the park tonight! We went to “our park” (we call it ours because it’s about 100 feet from our house) for the activity in our Family Night. I just crammed a blanket down in the swing and then stuck Rose in on top. It worked perfectly—Rose has always been such a stiff little body. She just hung there swinging slowly, studying the sunlight moving on her hand for the longest time. She’s so mellow.

Oh, here’s another little nugget from our life. In case you forgot, we currently have a month-to-month lease on a little yellow house that is for sale. Well, this week, someone finally made an offer on it, and they are working out all the paperwork already! We will probably have to move out by the end of June. BOO! We knew it could happen any time, but after 8 months and only 2 house showings, it was easy to get complacent. Now we get to go through the joys of finding a place to live around here while doing the full-time teaching job hunt at the same time. Not my favorite combo.

This IS my favorite combo.