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I love keeping up with my clients on Facebook. Since I started this business 3 (or is it 4?) years ago, I’ve had to pleasure of seeing so many of my brides and grooms start families! It’s so fun to see the baby photos. Happy Mother’s Day to all my clients and especially to the ones with the new little kidlets!

This year, I am sad that I won’t be able to spend Mother’s Day with my Mama (she’s traveling to China) and I won’t be with my own little Kidlet (She’s informed me that we are celebrating Monday). But, as someone wise told me, “Everyday is Mother’s Day.” That is truth and I hope people adhere to that.

As with many lucky and blessed people, my Mama was a huge and awesome influence in my life. She’s a strong, motivated, beautiful woman who is stylish and hip and always knows what to do in every situation. I’ve only seen my Mama cry twice –once when my Grandma died and once when her beloved dog died. She has challenged me to be the best, do the best and do good. I love you, Mama.

Almost 8 years ago, when I had my own daughter, I remember praying that I wouldn’t mess up motherhood and screw up this precious Kidlet that had been entrusted to me. It’s been a journey. Sometimes difficult, mostly easy and definitely rewarding. I definitely feel the Mommy guilt, especially when I am impatient or short with her and if I don’t have the time to spend with her like I want to. Being a single Mommy is hard and I still pray everyday I don’t mess it up. (Feel free to impart wisdom and advice…)

Here are a few shots of me and my Kidlet, Mackenzie. Thanks to PS Photo Media.

When I started college, one of the things I was super excited about was sending Christmas cards. Random, I know.

Of course, I had to be original and hand make my own cards. I was not about to go purchase pre-made cards from a box! The shame!

So, making homemade cards or at least doctoring up pre-made cards was the norm for each year until my daughter was born. Then, I swore that I would never get the photo type cards. I caved on that two, until a few years ago, I gave up on sending Christmas cards at all.

And such is blogging…

No, I haven’t given up on blogging, but it’s never been my favorite activity. Though I do enjoy the writing –sometimes. At the beginning of this year, I thought I would try to blog more, but with work, and the Kidlet, and Facebooking and Pinterest, blogging has become the item on my To DO List that gets pushed to “tomorrow” everyday. Haha.

So, being as it’s been over 10 days since my last post (and about 4 years since my last Christmas card), I figured, I better check in and let everyone who isn’t my Facebook/Twitter friend know that I am still alive (and Merry Christmas x4).

I am living the motto “Work Hard. Play Harder.” And nowhere in that motto says to stop and blog along the way. But I’m trying, and I’ll continue to at least feel guilty when I push “Write a blog post” to tomorrow’s TO DO list.

Here’s a picture I shot last week at a photo shoot. More to come…someday