Dear Dear internets its been a long day.
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I stayed home from work today and got to be with little Miss Bri. Who was STOKED by this turn of events. She kept coming to check like - “hey, you’re still here! Sweet!” then she would walk off to find something else to get into. Did you catch that? my little girl is WALKING ALL OVER THE PLACE! its barely been a week since she took her first step and shes just flying all over the place. She likes to hold a finger still, mostly because she likes to be holding on to you. Shes the most independent dependent person I’ve ever seen.
We went to church Wed. after noon, just because. More because lately I’ve needed to go for me. my husband gets my restless spirit and has been very understanding and open to attending where ever i want to go. I expect I’ll probably try and make bible study this week as well. We’ll see. He’s been very concerned about me as of late and I’ve tried to explain that the first year of any business is a little nerve racking.
All in all I have such little room to be nerve racked, my biggest complaint - things are not moving at HYPER SPACE drive speed. YET.
And that’s a good thing - I’m using this time to get my kids acclimated to longer stretches of me being home and doing the mom thing and then the periodic two or three day stretches where I have a shoot every day during what used to be us time. I’m also making a point of spending more time with the family as individuals. Cammy and I spend a little more time together, I encourage her to help with dinner even if it will cause things to hit the table a little later than planned. I have recently been reminded that over planning in general is probably not the best option for us a family. We have always worked better as a shifting unit. Now if I could just earn enough for somebody to come and do our laundry, I think that is my success point. When i can comfortably say I can afford for somebody to come and do our laundry I’ve done what I need to do, in the mean time I think i may take a page from a friends book and just BUY new clothes. Seems so much easier somehow.
Cammy is such a teenager stuck in the body of a four year old. What pray tell do you do with such a creature? I am not the mom to her I want to be. And I am working on that. Cammy is the kind of kid who should be in all manner of extra circular activities. This fall that is a MAJOR goal of mine. To find the things she would like to get into and well, get her into them. I think we are gonna try a sport, probably dance and swimming, and an art, probably music. We have a piano, she likes to play it. Maybe we should nurture that.
Husband isn’t blogging enough for anything I say about him to be a spoiler over on his blog. I expect alot of his peeps read here cause otherwise you think we’ve fallen off the face of the earth. He’s been workin up a good little storm. He gets along with his coworkers from what I can tell. Its hard not to like Jerry though, you sorta gotta work on that. He’s taken to role playing on line, which I think he enjoys it gives him creative ideas for his writing. So i’m hoping to encourage his writing more. We are both starting to work out more, although since Jerry is a man - his efforts are visible WAY faster than anything I could ever, ever hope for. But we are well, he is a joy to love. Some days are more interesting than other but man, he does make them colorful.
We went to dinner with our grown up friends the other day. Once a month we make a point to have dinner - not date night mind you but dinner with adults away from the kids. Date night is great and all but it takes more than one night a month to keep things movin around these parts. So once a month we go to dinner with our grown up friends who don’t have kids. Some times its a little more financially taxing cause the night starts off with you 25-40 dollars in the whole from paying a sitter and your single friends they don’t quite get that. Ours are getting better though we had a FANNY-tastic time. Our chosen location was Vin de Set in South City.
We’ve eaten at its sister restaurant on many an occasion but this was our first time there. Things I would recommend, the cheese plate was excellent. Our waiter made perfect recommendations. I had the duck which was beautifully prepared. Funny cause i love ducks in general, it seems odd to me that I order duck when ever I can.
three different people ordered the pork tenderloin special and while it was good, the tender loin that Adam order WAS OFF THE CHAIN. Literally, they easily must have laid a chain next to the plate to prove the point it was so good. i don’t know if the company made the food better but MAN, we had such a good time. It couldn’t have hurt the meal that the company was awesome. Some of the pictures below are my favorite ever of my friends, yes they aren’t PERFECT but they capture them perfectly.
Now speaking of Perfect I am posting a new session this weekend I had the joy of photographing MommyMae and her beautiful family. She is the most calm beautiful pregnant person I have ever met. I was like DUDE- if it had been like that for Bri we might be having another one! Then reality SMACKED me across the face for saying such a thing. She has three beautiful kids including twin girls who are such genuine characters. I’m looking forward to posting those images soon.
Also we have a little giveaway, i think we’ll do that on Monday so do keep on the look out for that. It is Photography related as it should be over here.
The next few weeks are gonna be a doozy I have two seminars, a field trip with Cammy, TWO additional maternity shoots and This months boudoir shoot!!! I am soooo excited. If you are a bride reading this you get a lovely little discount if you book this particular session. If you are interested in booking a session during my marathon boudoir session This Aug 23rd and 24th please shoot me an email at Pinxit photo at gmail dot com for information.
Why not? is a perfectly good life strategy! Be peaceful be photographed..
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This weeknd also gave me a chance to turn the camera on my girls. Cammy and Bri were invited to a birthday party of another blog friend, who was and has returned to IRL friend status with the QUICKNESS. I have learned alot about myself and the thing I learned first and foremost is that I miss having real life friends. Spoken is my heart but she works 90 hours a week, and she doesn’t have kids. Shoot the only kids she even likes are mine and one of her neices. So it was so refreshing to talk to someone who is artistic, and a mom, and has some of the same concerns and desires that I do. We had so much fun talking and then hanging out at the birthday party we went out to discuss all manner of stuff again on Sunday night. I had so much fun I forgot to take a single picture.
Dude, I probably had more fun than the kids. But the kids had a great time too. Jerry came with us to the Museum. Which was awesome. Cammy thrives off of us as a family unit and its so good to flex that outside of our four walls. Besides they make me so proud. All the time. I love that I got to watch Cammy trail after her daddy as he showed her all the train cars. Shes so dainty next to his masculine air. My friend has a boy, it was his birthday and he turned two. And it was also very interesting to watch Cammy relate to a little boy and we all agreed it was probably in all of our best interest that Gabrielle was not Gabriel. She was not enthused by his boyish charm.
