Did I leave anyone hangin' last week?? I fell off the face of the blog after Friday, and am just coming back.... and I wonder if anything feels unresolved to any of you? Is there any aspect of my random writing last week that I wasn't conclusive about that you'd like to know more about? I'm an open book!! Leave me a comment and I'll happily ramble on whatever part of Life-ness you wish I had talked more about... :)

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Until then, I really really really really need to blog the rest of my summer sessions. I have so many, and loved each one, and it's just SAD they haven't gotten to see the light of day on here... 

So--- I'm posting two today, both from Massachusetts, both amazing women with three kiddos apiece. We shot their session concurrently, and it was a wild evening of kids, cupcakes, flustered mamas, manic photographer singing wild songs to keep attention, and magic moments of actually pulling it all together when the moment counted. I know both Sarah (the mom of THIS session) and Beth, the other mama, will agree that it was.... interesting.... But it was also thoroughly fun (for me ... and probably the kids) and ended up in a very satisfying success of a session. 

Still... Next time I suggest to a client that we can do two families of 3+ kids at the same time, remind me I am nuts. 

Sarah, I love looking at these again--- miss you!

these shots of just the kids are my favorite--- LOVE the light, love their sweet faces, love their three totally different personalities!

And then the beach--- We had to get some at the coast! the sun was nearly GONE, but we made it work!

 

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Friday!...

Friday nite, 11:34pm.... After wrestling with my slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow internet all night (I just wanted to watch a movie or the rest of the new Glee episode while I edit, Mr. Internet? PLEASE??) I finally settled into some good editing while watching a DVD (When In Rome--- I was thoroughly happy with it. Don't knock me for giving in to cutesie movies. They were made for folks like me!). I'm working on the fun "bessie" session I talked my sister and her friends into, and I'm loving it! Editing is kinda fun these days, now that I have less of it.

But now it is 11:38, and ya know what? As per my new philosophy of life, I'm not gonna sweat the deadlines just now. I have a few more days to finish these photos... And my sweet hubs is actually gonna go to bed at the same time as me tonight instead of the work-week hour of 10:00pm... So I have a friend who's awake RIGHT NOW to go hang with, and it would be remiss of me to stay on this computer any longer editing. 

Or writing, for that matter. 

So.... Lofty as my goal is to write something every day this week, this little blurt will have to do tonight. I have someone really important to me waiting for me to go snuggle with him on the couch. 

And THAT is how I live my life these days. Remembering to remember what is the most important to me. 

G'night, all! Happy weekend!

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(enjoy this lil' old pic of my sweetheart and me, in the first weeks of our dating, spring 2004. Taken with my film camera set on self-timer, set in the grass in front of us. It's still one of my very favorites:)