New addition

As I mentioned before I love Photography. I am an aspiring photographer, with dreams and an aspiration to have my own studio and successful business in the next few years. Once the kids are in school I will be able to have my own "creative baby". Hubby is very supportive and will even sit for me while I click the shutter on my camera away. Last Friday he mentioned that he would be coming home late. That was fine with me.
I dont mind as long as he lets me know so that dinner is not waiting and the kids and I are not starving :)

So, he had an early

Valentines day gift for me. I have now been upgraded to a Nikon D100. Then on Saturday the happiness continued because I then was able to get the portraiture lens I have wanted.

I have my first shoot with an actual client in the next few months which I am really looking forward to.

I am satisfied the test shots I have taken so far.

The sickies

I have been feeling overwhelmed. Between the the Munchinators,  me and hubby being sick. Trying to keep the house clean... extra clean because it is on the market and you never know when you might get that call. I have not been to the chiropractor this week yet because I've been sick and I hate it when people go places and spread their sick germs. 

Im feeling the lack of adjustment in my system.... my sleep patterns and my temper. Tightness in muscles I just have been feeling blah. 

Hubby was traveling again this week so on Tuesday he came home early (sick) and he slept all the rest of the day. So since Tuesday it has been just me and the kids from morning till night. I admire my Hubby for how hard he works and I know (because he tells me and shows me) that he so respects what I do. That does not change the fact that some days are difficult. At times foreboding. I'm trying to enjoy moments. Like putting on some lip gloss on Lil' Miss and playing with her, with her barbies for a few minutes. Enjoying the fact that sometimes Lil' Man wants to cuddle up to his Momma and get his hugs and kisses in. 

Wow that actually helped. :)

Up early with K

So I am not a morning person. As beautiful and poetic as the sun rising with the birds chirping is, I personally would much rather only see and hear that if I have been up all night. Waking up to "catch the sunrise" Yeah not my idea of fun.  With that said I have been up for over an hour now. Why you may ask... because of K one of our cats.  This is K  with Lil' Miss. She loves him so much but that is not were the love started. K is 14 or 15 years old he was hubby's kitten when he was a kid. Now Kirk is old..... but very loving. He has diabetes  and gets shots of insulin every day he has cost us at the vets the same amount that it would take to have 2 more kids (at home with a midwife- Home-birth) but he is worth it. He is a sweet ole thing. My hubby wakes me up this morning by saying "Honey I hate to do this to you, but K needs honey he is about to go into diabetic shock. And I need to leave for work" So I dutifully get my butt out of bed get some honey for K and shoot it into his mouth. He is better now at least I did not wake up to him being in diabetic shock, quivering in his own excrement. That is not fun to clean up. 

So now I sit here and type Lil Miss just got up and is watching Scooby Doo and eating goldfish. She looks so cute with her little I just got up so I have slightly lopsided pigtails  from sleeping in them and her beautiful 3 year old smile with her little 3 year old voice saying good morning. I guess not all things are bad about mornings.

Except for the fact that I only have decaf.....

Laundry

Laundry, so much fun! I just LOVE it. I am so trying to lie to myself (and to everyone else). I actually dont mind washing laundry, or putting it in the dryer, or folding it or putting it away. I hate doing all of it. It is just all my amusement park ride. 

So our house is on the market and that means at a moments notice the phone could ring and we must vacate the house so some one I dont know can walk through my house and look at my stuff.... brrrrrrrrr gives me the willies. So I sortta digress. With our house on the market I needed to find a better system for me to do the laundry besides letting it stack up till I was scrounging for clothes for the kids to wear and my hubby was complaining that he did not want to go through the hamper to find something to wear. *sigh*  Then doing it all at once and letting it sit clean in laundry baskets the clothing stacked neatly 5 feet high. The stuff that you need would very rarely be at the top..... and well hubby tends to be as a bull in a china shop with my 5 foot tall neatly laid laundry stacks.

Now with our house being for sale and me having the ultimate fear of people seeing my imperfections (with out knowing me) and then judging me. Well I knew I needed a new system.

I have been doing this now for about a week.... I do a load a day of the colors I have the most of. Yes colors... Whites all go together then there are the cream and off whites, yellows, reds/pink/purple can go together, black stuff, brown and darker tan (not to be mistaken with cream and off white) and blue and green can be washed together. Like I have mentioned I'm a little neurotic and anal retentive and a tad of a perfectionist. And I do have to say that with this way of segregating laundry I have never yet dyed my hubby's undies and socks pink. So anyway getting back to my original thought I have also been segregating the clean laundry now into separate baskets. Basket for clothing to be hung up another for linens and towels and such yet another for shirts that get folded then another basket for random things that need to get folded i.e PJ's yoga pants stuff like that and then there is a basket for socks and under things. So not since I am one of those people that like to fiddle with stuff if I get the urge to fiddle I fold some stuff. Since it is only a few things at a time the putting away part is quick and easy as well. So far so good it is working out so far lets see how it continues further. 

First Post

This being my first post I just want to say and reveal my reasons for starting this blog.

• It has been years since I have put my thoughts into writing. Just recently I have started to miss the calm that hashing out my thoughts and seeing my thoughts brought to me.
  
• I need to document events, my children, my marriage, my life better. Since having the munchkinators the ole memory has really hit the crapper. 
• I am pushing and striving to within myself to be more me in an authentic way. With that said I am not striving to become a selfish self-centered person. Just the better me.
• My photography.... is my passion. I want to start my own business, once my children start school. This will allow me an outlet with some of my ideas. Instead of talking my husbands ear off (God bless his heart) like I normally do.
• My brain..... needs the rest. Sometimes (yeah that is a lie) okay most of the time I feel like there are a million thoughts bumping and bouncing around in my head.... Till I write it down. Then I realise not so many thoughts. Just like this list. The bullet points were cause I thought the list was going to be at least 20 different things. Yeah not so much. 
  

So life seems more manageable now at least for the moment. 

If life gives you lemons, feel free to make lemonade, just do not use it as a "fun" thing to do with your kids. Unless you want lemon juice squirted in your eye, sugar (or even worse honey) in their hair and your whole kitchen drenched with water. Better yet, hope that you get grapefruits, take two stick them down your shirt and remember when the girls looked that way all the time.