oh my gosh! hello!! Is there anyone out there anymore???
If so, you may have noticed that I have been gone for QUITE sometime.
Without boring you with all the details, I have had a rough couple of months. For lots of reasons.
There was lots of crying and laying around in my pjs for days on end. Lots of cereal dinners and stinky kids (you know, b.c I didn't have the energy to bathe them)
BUT...I am MUCH better now!
In fact, just to show you how far I have come let me tell you a little story.
A few weeks ago, I had a wedding to attend. Not only as the photographer. But as a guest. One of my cousins was getting married.
You see, photographing a wedding is one thing.
Being a guest is one thing.
Being BOTH is a WHOLE other story.
If I am photographing, I hardly care what I am wearing, as long as its comfortable.
If I am a guest, I hardly care about comfort, as long as I am CUTE!
Trying to combine these two is very exhausting.
You don't believe me?? Give it a try!
I finally found a great outfit that was both adorable and comfortable.
But, now what to do with my hair?
You see, a ponytail in my adorable, albeit comforatble, outfit just wouldn't sufice.
So...I decided that this would be the day to drag out my teeny, tiny curling iron and curl my hair with lots of ringlets.
Cute, right?
Yes, but I forget that it takes at least half a day to do this.
Oh, did I mention that this wedding was on a Friday?
Which shouldn't be a big deal, since I do everything with my kids, but for some reason, trying to get ready for a wedding without Bill around makes me kind of crazy.
Plus, I was trying to look good!
Oh, AND, we were spending the night away from home that night which meant I had to pack for all of us.
Oh, AND we had two (yes TWO) parties to attend the next day which meant I need appropriate attire and gifts to come with us.
Oh, AND my kids needed to be at the wedding for 5.2 seconds to have a picture taken with my grandparents (this really was cute...my grandparents, with their 21 great grandchildren and 3 youngest grandkids!) but...again, this means I needed appropriate attire for them.
And, I needed to leave the house before lunch and get my kids to the sitters and needed to grab lunch on the way.
Do you see the dilema?
Well, I was handling all of this like a champ (just take my word for it. you don't need to ask my kids. I promise I was doing great)
Finally, running behind...which in the world of trying to get to a wedding on time is NOT ok... we are all about to load up into the vehicle when just like that my DOG GOT LOOSE!!!
I was standing on my sidewalk, pretty ringlets blowing in the wind, camera equipment hanging off one side of me and clothes off the other when I saw that mutt (sorry, I really do love him) run like a flash, right past me, out of the fence and down the street.
I STOMPED my feet and THREW my purse on the ground and SCREAMED "are you freakin kidding me?!?!?!"
I threw all my stuff in the truck
got everyone buckled in
and started down the road looking for my dog.
He is SO lucky that I found him 2 seconds later.
So, once again, we were loaded up, ready to go. I made it about 5 minutes from home when I realized I had forgotten the directions.
Not caring one bit about my earlier tantrum, I had yet another one...this time banging my hands on the steering wheel over and over until I couldn't anymore b.c I need to turn it. You know, to go back home and get my directions.
Well! (sitting up a bit straighter, adjusting my clothes and patting my hair) aren't you so impressed with the great strides I have made to be more rational these past months?!
no?
thats ok. At least I am back =)