this week, i…

Friday, 27 August 2010

This week, there were a lot of things I meant to do:

• I meant to do a giveaway. (I’ll be doing that next week – I’m gearing up to launch my shop, and I want to gauge online interest and let you all know that I’m not just shooting for locals.)

• I meant to write a poem for L.L.’s HCB Poetry prompt.

• I meant to catch up with my Reader, because I miss Laura and Erin and Jessica and Deb and Jo and Ann and Michelle and a whole slew of other friends.

• I meant to write a post for Emily’s Tuesdays Unwrapped and a post for Bridget’s Blog Carnival.

• I meant to have a maternity shoot, but it got cancelled for the best reason – the mama went into labor! (Newborn shoot coming soon, I think.)

• I meant to reply to my Flickr comments.

• I meant to tweak the fonts on my website.

• I meant to put together a “school schedule” for Pip, who is interacting at a five-year-old level lately and wants to “go to school.”

• I meant to make a meal list.

• I meant to write another installment in my God in the Yard study series.

But I didn’t actually do any of that. Because I’m not superwoman, and because…

• I scheduled five or six shoots this week.

• I completely reworked an article for Ungrind.

• I nearly finished a book.

• I updated the code and the slideshow for my photography page.

• I created a new design for a friend. (Can’t wait for the reveal on this – I’m STOKED.)

• I went out for dinner with my family last night.

• I shot, processed, and posted three photo shoots in two days.

• I spent a couple hours watching Jasmine Star on Creative Live. You are SO going to get more of my thoughts on this later (but that goes in next week’s “meant to do” list. :-P)

• I spent an hour on the phone with my web-designer brother about outsourcing and computer equipment and a new computer.

• I spent real time with my kids and I said “I love you” a lot.

• I had a couple LONG, wonderful conversations with my husband.

• I actually wrote in my journal (it’s been a year since I did that).

• I managed on two days this week to get up by 5:30 and have a little me-time before things started.

• I had three chiropractor visits and two x-rays.

♥

I’m in such a crazy transition time right now. I don’t know if I’m up or down or tired or crazy – well, crazy I’m pretty sure about – or backward or forward, but there are good, good things happening. I can feel myself moving into my life, moving slow and faster than I’ve moved in years, and I feel like I can do this thing, feel like I’m on the right track and if I continue down this road it’s not going to be about success or failure, but about about the way I share and experience and worship God.

I’ve not been able to see it before now, and I’m so impatient, I want to reveal it all at once, but He’s not ready yet for His own reveal, but I’m not on the fence anymore, and that is a good thing.

So there will be more coming soon, and probably poetry and photos and all kinds of fun (I have a shoot on Saturday with my chiropractor and his wife – and their little dog Daisy – SO excited!) but the kids are sick today, and I have to grocery shop and clean house, because my parents are coming in from Virginia for a brief visit tonight, and isn’t life wonderful when you let yourself live it, even if you don’t know what the heck you’re doing?

♥

And you have to know the story behind the photo in this post.

Last Friday morning, we were on our way into town for a photography session. Pete was in the other car (did I tell you, we were GIVEN a car this month?) and I had the two kiddos in my car. We were driving over the bridge and the sun came pouring through the morning clouds, spraying color and light everywhere. I couldn’t do anything but look, and called back to Pip, “Piper, look out the window! Look at how beautiful!”

She gasped (my three-year-old gasps at beautiful!) and gushed, “It’s beootiful, Mama! You have to take a pitchure!”

Of course I was driving, so I couldn’t, but when we arrived at our destination, I saw the sun was still playing out over the water, so I snapped a couple of photos while we waited for my clients to arrive.

When I showed her later (this was the best part to me), she got all excited. “Mama, you did take a pitchure! Thank you SHSOO much!”

All over the sun in the clouds.

This kid and I – I think we’re gonna have some fun together.

'this week, i…' posted on August 27th, 2010 at 9:51 am.
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14 Responses to “this week, i…”

  1. Jessica writes:
    No. 1 — August 27th, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Love the clouds. Love that you are busy…working and scheduling and adding. To not be sitting on the fence anymore, how does that feel?
    Happy Friday…I haven’t been listed as a friend in a long time :)
    J.
    Jessica´s last [type] ..The Lower Trail

  2. Maureen writes:
    No. 2 — August 27th, 2010 at 11:06 am

    Have a great visit with your parents and a wonderful weekend.
    Maureen´s last [type] ..Facts- New or Not

  3. A Simple Country Girl writes:
    No. 3 — August 27th, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Isn’t it grand when our lists start to unravel because of this life we are living? Mine included lots of peaches and blackberries and boys and soccer balls and some silly stuff and some thinking.

    And that book you mention, was it good?

    I need something good to read.
    I have been eating books all summer
    and I feel I need another.

    Blessings.
    A Simple Country Girl´s last [type] ..A Little Good News Today

  4. Sandra Heska King writes:
    No. 4 — August 27th, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    So many things I meant to do. So many things I mean to do. And sometimes we just have to live in the moment.

    My husband told me once how he saw a cloud formation he really really wanted his dad to capture in a picture. His dad never moved very fast, but he did stroll to the house to get the camera, and by the time he got back, of course, everything had changed. Funny that Dennis would remember that more than 50 years later.
    Sandra Heska King´s last [type] ..All Because of a Root

  5. deb writes:
    No. 5 — August 27th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    Kelly,
    this is just the best … all of it. bursting at the seems with life.
    love you,
    enjoy your weekend.
    deb´s last [type] ..the extra

  6. Katy writes:
    No. 6 — August 27th, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Love the Piper story at the end! And very glad to hear that you’re happy busy too! :-)

  7. Melissa | Madabella: made beautiful writes:
    No. 7 — August 27th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    ok. if i could reach into this screen of mine, i would. i would give you the biggest of hugs simply because you are lovely in every way and there’s just something about this post (perhaps everything?) that made me giddy and say a resounding yes in my heart.
    Melissa | Madabella: made beautiful´s last [type] ..Find &amp Seek – No 2

  8. Karenee writes:
    No. 8 — August 27th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    Aww… aww! Piper is a sweetie. Just wait, she’ll be bringing you breakfast in bed before you know it. And my kids are so fun about my creative stuff, just like her.

    “My mom is the best artist I know!” is my favorite compliment, ever. And they’ve started drawing “abstract” too. *laugh*
    Karenee´s last [type] ..Perhaps Im Not a Poet

  9. sarah writes:
    No. 9 — August 27th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    there is so much here I would comment on, but it might take me a week to do so! I love the Piper story :-) And I love the slideshow on your photography site. Beautiful.

  10. Amy writes:
    No. 10 — August 27th, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    Ah, so beautiful, this snapshot: of words, of life and of the endless routine that is the sun and the sky. Enjoy your weekend, you certainly deserve to :)
    Amy´s last [type] ..So Over the Colour Blue

  11. Michelle DeRusha writes:
    No. 11 — August 28th, 2010 at 12:01 am

    I always say I should make a list of “DID” rather than “To Do.” I’d probably feel a lot better about myself. And you DID a lot this week!

    And thank you for the mention! Wasn’t sure you meant ME so I clicked on it and lo and behold, I was at my own place.

    I meant to come by here this week, too…meant, meant, meant. First week of school, my husband’s mother is very ill — life is very unbalanced. Anyway, I do think of you a lot..that counts for something, yes?

  12. joann writes:
    No. 12 — August 28th, 2010 at 12:27 am

    I think we’ve had the same week. The internet falls to the side when life gets CRAYze! (i’m so gansta!)
    joann´s last [type] ..Tragedy at the Farm- Squeezie Donna Edition

  13. deidra writes:
    No. 13 — August 28th, 2010 at 10:41 am

    It is a super woman who realizes she’s not Superwoman.
    deidra´s last [type] ..Beauty- Barbie- and The Bachelorette

  14. Danielle writes:
    No. 14 — August 29th, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Man, you HAVE been busy! Can’t wait to see/read the results of some of your work!
    Danielle´s last [type] ..Sophia Grace

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