Just cause i have spent so much time posting pictures of other people’s babies lately – i do’nt want my own to feel left out. They’re still my favorite photography subjects ever. Wait till i post the video of them pushing the littlest one around in the DOLL stroller soon…

Each with their own distinct and quite often contradictory personalities. They wear me out by the end of the day. But oh what fun we have in those days. Most of the time. Ok the times its NOT fun is cause of me. I am trying to be funner. more energetic. less of a yeller. i just need to sleep for like – a week straight. my secret dream? to get a hotel room for three straight days, tape the heavy dark curtains completely shut. crank the air con up full blast, bring my own heavy blankets from home and curl up in them and not get out of bed for at LEAST 48 hours. Take the hottest bath i can, then go back to bed. maybe eat awhole meal with BOTH of my arms  available. i dunno. maybe i am asking too much.

but i wouldn’t trade what i have for anything in the world. they’re crazy and unruly sometimes and have this weird affinity for playing with loose change and decorative river rocks in a glass bowl but they’re MY weird offspring. all mine. and everything they do is precious to me. even if its not so precious when i’m living it.

i just wanted to get that out tonite.

I hardly know what to do with myself right now. Light of day has broken and yet, I am the only one awake in my house. Not even the STOOPID dogs are whining to be let out yet. After a crazy nite in which I dumped an entire 5 gallon bucket of hot mopping water all over the floor minutes before all my friends arrived for bunco, setting off a chain reaction among all the fire alarms in our house for 5 straight minutes, setting off three screaming panicky children not to mention the fact that there are FIVE GALLONS of water running all over the floors of my downstairs…then having baby girl 3 proceed to spend the entire nite screaming in her crib while I am trying to get my bunco on…

Aftr all that…i get this. Peace and Quiet. I am almost afraid to move or type too fast – like I’ll make the moment be over too soon. But i wanted to capture this moment. And treasure it. and just breathe it in. Cause it so rarely happens. God is good. He knows i needed this. Not that i am accomplishing ANYTHING with this time. But that I just needed to stop and BREATHE. Feel restored. If only for a few minutes on a boring Tuesday morning.

I have photography work to catch up on like you would not believe. Feeling SO blessed at how that is taking off. Now to just get the organizational business skills in place to keep it moving forward and not pissing people off for making them wait too long. And to pray that we do continue to have a steady stream of new customers. Such an amazing thing to be part of people’s memories, families, lives – to capture a moment of their story for them.

Christmas will be here in what – 5 weeks now? i cannot believe its Thanksgiving this thursday! I love this time of year. I want to make this year truly special for the girls – I want them to catch the fun and excitement that seems to be in the air this whole season. We have been listening to the Holiday Station in the car a lot and its so fun to see them singing along with some of the songs! Karissa will often walk around just singing – "you better not pout I telling you why"…and then proceed to have a meltdown 5 minutes later…but still – its adorable while it lasts! Ben keeps telling me "not to go overboard" this year with gifts. So while it wo’nt be a christmas of presents piled three feet high under the tree – it is my hope that at least its a christmas of presents piled high in their hearts. Presents of good memories, of new traditions being created and old ones being passed down.

I hear the lovely pitter-patter of someone’s little feet.

My beautiful precious quiet time has ended and now my day begins. But the beauty of these few moments will stay with me all day.

Craziness – here we all come!

Oh – for a good time – go here.

Too Much Time On Their Hands

My brother, sister-in-law, and cousin started a new band. Its good for a few laughs if you ever owned one of those amazing plastic tackle boxes to put your makeup and "hair scrunchies" in when you were in junior high.

Peace out homeslices.

T-crest

what? I can’t hear you….the silence in my house is deafening.

My lovely beautiful mother from whom I have gained all things perfect and harmonious (i wasn’t even paid to say that!) – has taken my two eldest rugrats for two days so I can just have a little BREAK from life! This leaves me with a very whiney, fussy, teething, cold-having 3 1/2 month old, but still. When she sleeps…all is bliss. My house is so quiet. I do miss those little buggers…

I have decided to stop the screaming coming from my pantry. My darling groom brought home these fru-its of the dev-e-il the other day from the grocery store.You know the ones i’m talking about – little crunchy pieces of cornmeal deep-fat-fried then sprinkled with this addictive meth-laced cheezy orange powder…CHEETOS….

They were calling my name and whispering horrible horrible things to me so i decided to stop the demon voices by devouring the entire bag of them to shut them up. NOW the house is silent. More silent than it was. and my fingers are eternally stained orange.

So i am trying  to decide what is the first thing I need to attack today. Ben did an awesome job cleaning up yesterday while I was gone taking the kids to memaw’s house…so while I have a few mommy-tasks to complete, life is actually relatively calm. I am hoping that some of my zen is being restored by just sitting here, just BEING. i have so many ideas for our photog business running through my head, as well as another exciting opportunity I am hoping comes to fruition soon. I also have the issues regarding work/contract and other home issues weighing on my mind. I want to just be rid of it all…but then that would’nt really be living would it? if everything just magically went away and/or worked itself out?

So.where was i? I got interrupted by a phone call. I need help being more…ummm. what’s the word….focused! But sometimes I don’t even know where to start. I have some people tell me – cut yourself some slack! you have a newborn! you have three kids! You’re a single parent all week! Which is true. and when i type it out it does sound as overwhelming as it feels sometimes. But i feel like, ok i’ve been under way more stress than this and still managed to hold it all together. So what gives now? I do’nt know. But I aim to figure it out soonly.  I must figure it out. And the silence has ended. K3 is awake…

back to the daily grind!