Okay. So. I have a shoot at 2. I have to pick up the girls from school at 3:15 (I insisted 2 was not good time, but client was certain her baby would be perfect and we’d be through.) Then Emily has a birthday party for her best friend at 4:30. I also have a [...]

So, I am a photographer at Christmas. Not all photographers have big holiday rushes–those who focus more on weddings or commercial work or models have a big slowdown. But I photograph kids. So the onslaught begins mid October and is unrelenting until the day I cut them off, which is this weekend. Because I had [...]

Emily has 22 kids in her class. Eliza has 19. This means that Valentine’s Day lasts for a week or more with leftover candy and sweet sentiment (and wrappers and sugar highs.) Today in the car, Eliza, who is three, opened a little packet of candy hearts–the chalky kind with the little sentiments like “Hug [...]

This post is probably going to subject me to more ridicule than yesterday’s cheesy Statesman letter (“photo gives us hope…”good gracious…) But I press on anyway. I accidentally became a slacker mom Monday. I am in charge of snacks for Elizabeth’s preschool class this week, and when I got home yesterday from picking her up, [...]

Two red shirts, size 3T and 6, bought in a frantic 5-minute blitz at JC Penney: $19.95 Two sets of pictures, printed instantly on a dye-sub printer Deanna now covets: $37.85 Cost of items requested during the ensuing discussion–2 Glow-in-the-dark Doodle Bears: $49.90 NO LINE TO VISIT SANTA AT THE MALL: Priceless Eliza, age 3 [...]