WORDY WEDNESDAY

As you might have heard me complain, it is quite difficult to maintain three different blogs. I am not a great blog writer like some that I have ran across, saved and read lately, but I enjoy blogging. I enjoy looking back at my family's memories and I enjoy knowing that I have this to save our memories. I even enjoy keeping up my portrait blog. In fact, sometimes I wished that I could quit working as a professional and just keep up with my little sweethearts life and the rest of my family through blogging. I guess I could, but then I wouldn't have nearly as much to blog about because I couldn't afford some of the adventures that we blog about, if I didn't have least at source of income/cash flow from time to time.

I just wanted to make a quick post to say that I am trying to update Natalie's World with the events of the last two months or so. I have photographed the images, even gotten some of them ready to blog. I realized last night that I was 17 posts behind. I had even gotten to the point of not photographing insignificant moments since I knew I was already behind. I have a few posts that were not included in those 17 that need to be posted here. I plan to get Natalie's Images posted first and then I plan to catch up here as well.

It's hard to believe it is summer, that Cameron and Brittany have been married a year, that Natalie will soon be four years old, and that when summer is over my daughter starts school as a junior. WOW! I also can't believe my partial sabbatical (photographing babies, repeat clients, special promo and certain events) has come to a full circle. I still haven't done nearly as much as I wanted to do thus I will go into another year of the same thing this upcoming school year. Who knows I may continue it until Cari graduates. After that, who knows!

I don't think as a family we'll be taking a nice vacation...maybe some special outings to the waterpark, lake, and/or the beach. Hurricane Gustav effected many things like that for us this year, but no matter what we do, we'll make some special time for each other. Of course, I will be there to document and then BLOG IT! Check out NATALIE'S WORLD to see what we've been up to the last few months. I have posted a few of the BACKTRACKING today and last night..I have many more to post. So stay tuned to see what we've been up to with Natalie!

WORDY WEDNESDAY

This post will be all words...no photos. I want to use the post to brag about my daughter one more time...not the last time I sure, but one more time for now. I don't have photos because I doubt any one took any photos of her at the Literary Rally this past Saturday a.m. If they did take photos, I am sure it would have been on the bus or something like that...possibly with some of them just being silly or something!

CARI GOT FIRST PLACE IN SPANISH!

Needless to say, we are very proud of her! Monday afternoon she informs me that she didn't think she would go to state because it was the same day as prom. I quickly informed her that she would. Personally (definitely, speaking as a mom) I think it is ridiculous that they have prom four years. What happened to having it just your junior and senior year? So now we have to figure out how we can do both. I don't know if she has a shot, but I know from personal experience that winning first place used to entitle the winner to a scholarship. If anyone knows more about the current status of this, please let me know. My daughter is clueless. Cameron said it was the same as it was when I won over 20 years ago. I won $500 ($250 for the first and 2nd semester of the first year in college) for winning first place in Home Economics my junior year in high school. Surely with inflation, this has increased. Even if it hasn't I certainly think it is worth going through a little extra pain on prom day. DO YOU AGREE?