Adenoid adventures!

As I was telling 'Good Friend' about my son Lucas's recent day surgery, she said that I have to blog about it.  So here I am.  I'm going to back track a bit first though;

Luke has had allergy problems for quite a few years now.  His nose constantly runs (seriously - constantly), he's always had dark circles around his eyes, spoke just slightly nasally (is that a word?), mouth breathed...  you get the point.  He's seen an allergist, who had just given him adult meds, and more meds and different meds every time that I suggested that they didn't seem to have a noticeable effect on the problem.  I had assumed that she'd have said something about hos tonsils or adenoids if she thought that may be a problem... but, i guess not.  I finally asked his pediatrician if she thought that his tonsils or adenoids might be the cause of any of his ailments, and she immediately took note of the mouth breathing and sent us for an x-ray. (LOVE her!) A good pediatrician is better than chocolate.  Even the good expensive chocolate. (sorry, she's not accepting new patients)  I had a message on my machine before i even got home that day letting me know that his Tonsils seemed fine, but his Adenoids were "prominent" and a referral was sent to see an ENT specialist.
I was pretty excited about how quickly this was all coming together.  If I'd had any clue how quickly it would really ALL come together soon enough.... I'd probably have pee'd myself!  Well, or something... perhaps not have pee'd, lol.  (That'd put a damper on things.  Ha!!)
Just to give you a timeline, this was about early to mid March.
So, I called the ENT, and the receptionist said "I'll check for an appointment, but we're booked well past May."  May, really?  I might have an answer to finally help my poor runny nosed, foggy headed, allergy ridden child, and you're telling me we'll have to wait to even be seen until May?!?!  (Luckily i just screamed that in my head, where only I can hear how much of an impatient crazy person I am.)   ;)  "Oh wait, we do have a cancellation on the 29 of this month."  She says.  Woohoo!!  We'll take it!  Any time!  So off we go the 29th to meet with our new ENT Doctor.  Once again I lucked out.  She was so nice, spoke to both Luke & I, was psyched that his pediatrician had already done an X-ray to save her some time, and said "Well, those Adenoids have to come out."  Simple as that.  I was given a card with a number to call to get it set up, told to watch him sleeping for a few nights first, because if he had any kind of apnea they'd take the Tonsils too, and that was that!
From then on I'd joked about how great would be if I could get the Adenoids out during April vacation.  But seriously... I was just happy that the ball seemed to be rolling as a steady pace without any road blocks.  I couldn't expect them to act that quickly.
I watched Luke sleep for a few nights, and all was clear.  No choking or anything, so the Tonsils would stay.  Just Adenoid surgery is a shorter recovery time anyway (1day!), so we're pretty happy with that.  So, I called the number on the card to make the appointment.   "Does April 22nd work for you?"  Hmm... that's GG's Birthday (she'll understand), Good Friday, two days before Easter, and APRIL VACATION!!!!!!!!  For real, it was so difficult to contain my happiness so that this woman didn't think (find out) i was some sort of crazy.  April freakin vacation!!  Are you kidding me?!  I could seriously feel God smiling at me.  I could've high five'ed him.  So of course I said yes, and the date was set.
My next task was to make sure Luke would be ok with all of this, and not be freaked out or scared or anything.  (man, this is becoming quite the long back story - sorry! I've never been good at summarizing!)  We pumped up the surgery quite a bit.  We just talked about how his Adenoids were what was making him feel sick and have a runny nose, how they'd give him medicine to take a little nap, and when he woke up the Adenoids would be gone...  He thought that was all sounding pretty cool.  The fact that his voice might be different was even more of a selling point for him.  He actually began counting down the days to his surgery because he was so excited about it!  Zach was a little concerned, asking Luke a few times, "are you sure you'll be ok?" but Luke couldn't be thrown off his happy course, responding "Yea, I'm brave."
The day came and even when I could feel myself getting a little on edge (day surgery or not - they're workin on my baby!!), and Luke was still really excited.  (seriously, you would have thought we were going to Disney or something, lol)  His Aunt Nicole surprised him by showing up at the Hospital for support, and she brought him a brand new blue Puffle.  The doctor's gave him cool scrubs, a backpack, let him choose Root Beer scent for the laughing gas, gave him a wagon ride to the operating  room... his day just kept getting better.  If I can figure out how to get a few pictures on here I will.  It was great.  He really made me such a proud Momma!

So here's where the "you have to blog this" part comes in.

I decided that i'd be the one to go in the operating room with Luke. (For a few reasons, but mainly bc I'm a control freak and I needed to see him drift off safe & sound)  They'd told Luke that the Root Beer smell would go away and then he'd smell something like furniture polish.  Yummo.  He seemed pretty ok with it.  They layed him down, belted him to the table and a man was holding the mask on him with the Root Beer scent while Luke pretended to sleep (because he knew that was supposed to be the outcome).  I held Luke's hand (mostly I guess for my own comfort, he barely held back).  Then the man says that he's going to turn on the laughing gas.  Well let me tell you - there was nothing funny happening after that!!  Luke's eyes shot open wide all scared like, and he started squirming on the table.  The man seemed to hold the mask on a little tighter, and Luke gripped my hand really tight.  There was this other man, nice enough when we met him a few moments ago, but now he's "the story teller" so he's telling Luke a Star Wars story, talking all fast and getting into some technical talk about quadrants and all sorts of star wars jargon that was way over my head, let alone Luke's (just because his name's Luke, doesn't mean he knows about star wars!), and why was he telling the story so fast? It shot my anxiety up, so I could only imagine how my little drugged up Luke felt!  All while rubbing the side of Luke head...
This all happened in a matter of seconds, then Luke's eyes slowly rolled to the back of his head (like he'd died) and the gas mask man was now holding his head up.  He kept his head up, and said "Give him a kiss Mom".  Well, I'd already started crying.  I felt like I'd watched them hold down & kill my kid!  Seriously, that's what it looked like, a really nice 'let's put you to sleep' killing.  I had to pry his fingers off my hand even after he was asleep, to lean over & kiss him.  (which made it seem even more like I was kissing him 'goodbye')  I know, whatever, I'm a dramatic bawl bag!!  It was seriously a scarring experience for me!!
Then, then (!), I had to leave the room.  It took all I had to keep the cry from going to a full on shoulder sob.  Plus, this man had to walk me back (a different man than the two that had "killed" my kid, thankfully).  He was nice enough, but it was clearly an awkward walk, as i was trying to remind myself of what was really happening and to stop crying.  It's freakin DAY surgery!

So, blah blah blah, surgery was very quick and went well.  The end.  ;)
No really, surgery went awesome!  Luke woke up not even remembering the horrifying tragedy that I'd experienced. (he actually asked why it was taking so long to take his Adenoids out and was so surprised to find out they already had!)  He was asking for a McDonald's Fish Filet within the half hour (to which he got a resounding NO!  Then he threw up.).
The next morning we had an Easter Breakfast at church and I think Luke ate about 6 pancakes, at least 2 if not 3 cups of scrambled eggs, some sausage links, and anything else they were serving (x5).
Immediately we've seen the dark circles around his eyes go away, his voice is a little higher, and his nose hasn't run once since the surgery.

Can I say one more time that I love my pediatrician?!

So, it's been sort of quiet on the blog for a while - sorry!  It takes some getting used to, remembering to write, having something worth writing about, not getting interrupted while writing...  I can't see things changing anytime soon though.
So, what's been going on?  Hmm.. well, in WW world i'm down 8.4lbs, so that's nice!  I had made it up to 9.6, but then got overconfident and stopped tracking.... (which I'm still not doing - shame on me!).  I've been promising myself to make it to the gym at least 4 days a week too - and excuses, excuses, I still haven't done that!  I do go to Zumba at least once a week though.  Looooove Zumba!  It's helped me to realize exactly how UNcoordinated  I am, shown me how I really look akwardly dancing in front of a full length mirror (Eeek!), and left me sweaty enough to gross even myself out, LOL, but I LOVE it!
So yea, now that I made Zumba sound super enticing - you should try it! ;)

I've also had some home renovations going on.  We're actually right smack in the middle of quite a few things, and have even more plans. (Well, I have plans - hubbs hasn't exactly jumped on the 'let's do more' train quite yet!)

We've recently widened our driveway and lined it with timbers.  Two rows of 4 small cars can fit across now.  Then probably two across the rest of the way down. We've just got to grab some small rocks to fill in the part that we widened & knock down the brick surround on the other side of the driveway & put timbers over there too so it matches.

Alongside the driveway widening, Hubbs cleared out the side yard too.  It was a jungle before.  We just didn't go near it, and squinted our eyes at it when we had to look, so that it would all blend and look fuzzy & green, and almost nice, (well, that's what I did) instead of the wide eyed reality of the climbing vines choking everything out, random trash the wind had swept in, old beer & hard liquor bottles that'd been there for longer than I'd been alive, it seemed... it was scary.  That was the other side of the house.  The side where only our dead leaves dared go.

Not anymore!  Hubbs got in that Bobcat & just took it over!  We cleared out the trash & bottles, he knocked down some trees and attacked those vines like nobody's business...  It's all cleared out & wide open looking now.  We just need to even it out a bit, plant some grass, get a good fire pit area going on over there, maybe even a tree house... (Shh! Hubbs hasn't exactly heard the tree house idea yet... I'm not sure he's ready for it!)

We also have more outdoor plans of a walkway to the front door, another garden area in the front yard, a stone patio in the backyard, & a custom Pergola over the stone patio. 

We might be a little crazy, btw.  (Who am I kidding?!  ...might, lol.)

We're still in the middle of a year long attic renovation that will be the boys' new bedroom once it's done.  That's been a work in progress for quite some time, but I'm really hoping to wrap it up soon & get them in there.  I've got lots of growing boy tween themes for that room, plus, it'll give them soo much more room (to do activities!), the separate bed option they so desperately want (instead of bunk beds - no, they don't share a bed), a homework area, and a closet to DIE for.  (Seriously, I'd give up my master bath for that closet, but hubbs says no!)
Can't wait until it's finished!  Just need to grab some more drywall & get to mudding! (... mudding... the reason we've stalled for so long.... mudding's no fun)

Another in-progress project, is some trim painting throughout the house!  A good friend pointed out that my stained wood trim was holding my house back from reaching it's awesome-ness potential.  Duh!  Why didn't I see that?!  (Probably bc I didn't want to - we have a LOT of stained wood trim)  I used a stripper on the window to get the varnish off so that I didn't have tons of sanding dust everywhere (work smarter - not harder!).  I've painted two coats of primer and am debating on one more before two-three coats of a white satin paint.  Saydee (our dog) often hops up on that window & I'm worried about her nails scratching up the paint. I think I'll first prime all the trim in the living room though, then I'll move on to painting them them all.
What a difference already on the bay window though!  The light reflects off it, so it's brighter & my son commented that it looks like we bought a brand new window - WIN!
That idea, prompted me to consider painting my fireplace wall too. (Which scared good friend a little bit - but not me!).  The fireplace was easier to get started - no sanding - so I got busy painting it white even before I'd started the window.  (It was originally red bricks with random white and black 'painted' ones?  I call it "the dirty look" for bricks, and I don't mind it at all on the outside of my home.  I'm done with it on the inside!)  The white instantly brightened up the room, made it look bigger and CLEAN!!  I haven't done the inside, or the part on the floor yet (bc there's a wood stove sitting in & on), but I'm considering painting the inside black, and either the botton white, or we may put some slate over the bottom (another possible planned project).  Once the painting part is finished I'm dying to get these custom ladder shelves built that I designed for the space at least 3 years ago.  Those will be stained black, to break up the white a little bit and will hold our DVD's, videogame & cable boxes, some frames & books, and logs will store neatly in the bottom on slide out boot trays for the wood stove. I know, I'm a genius...  sometimes I amaze even me! ;)  LOL (note that custom shelving is yet another planned project for the hubbs - but he just has a few simple cuts to do - I'll do the staining!)


Now I really want to tally this up; exactly how many project are in progress and how may are in the planning stage?

In Progress:
1. Attic
2.Driveway
3.Side Yard
4.Trim Painting
5. Fireplace Painting

More To Come:
1.Custom Ladder Shelves
2.Walkway
3.Garden
4.Stone Patio
5.Pergola
6. Adding Shower to the Master Bath (almost forgot about that one!)
7.Linen Closet/Laundry Chute (great idea hubbs had... another day, another blog post)
...and really, tons more I think.  LOL
(No wonder why Hubbs is ready to move us all far, far away to a house more complete!)


So, when my next blog post is how I'm 'sooo overwhelmed & just don't know what to do!', please remind me that I've totally brought this on myself so I should suck it up or cut it out!!  ;)  (just remind me super nicely, bc I cannot guarantee that my reaction will be immediate acceptance)


Well, clearly I've got too much to do to be sitting here writing about it!  LOL
First I've got to figure out dinner, pick up niece, pick up Luke from his friend's house, make sure my lesson's ready & get these kids to AWANAS tonight (baptist version of CCD, for all that wonder)...
No projects today.

Change is good. Right?

So I'll start off with the news of my first official weigh in; I'm down .8lbs.
Not 8lbs.  Point 8.   I was actually surprised to have lost anything, so I'll take it.  It was sort of a tough week trying to adjust to the whole points thing, be starving, workout.... plus I had a visitor during weigh-in, lol.  That's as much as I'm going to say about that!  All excuses aside, I fully expected to lose nothing the first week.  So, although .8 is very close to nothing, it's still something!  So Yayy!
More on weight loss; this website i like, http://groopdealz.com, is running a great special on HCG Thin Solution (50% off!).  I've known of three people who've been on the HCG diet and lost a substantial amount of weight.  HCG is taken orally under your tongue.  It's a hormone that your body naturally produces when your pregnant to make sure proper nutrients get to the developing baby.  So, this stuff somehow convinces your body to supply itself with a constant flow of food received from your body fat.  If you follow this diet and take the supplements, you could lose up to 1-2lbs a day. Check out more info on http://hcgthinsolution.com.
I'm sort of thinking of getting in on this deal.  I can probably still count my points and take the HCG, right?  I go to the WW meetings though, so I'm a little afraid that if I start losing a good amount of weight, and they ask how, I'm going to mention the HCG, and they'll probably frown on that i think...  I don't want to throw they're weight counts off or whatever.  This HCG stuff is expensive though,  and that's the main reason I chose WW.  Now with this deal, it's not so expensive anymore (just $40 for 40 days worth now).  Hmm... decisions decisions!!

What else is new....
Well, my husband and I have been trying to downsize & minimize. So that's been fun, lol.  Seriously though, we need to.  Who wants to pay extra for anything? Not I.  Not we.  Thus far, his job has been stable, in a pretty unstable economy.  What if we HAD to downsize?  It's got to be easier to want to downsize, rather than having no choice but to do so.  So here we are.  Maybe if  (when) that day comes where we have to, we'll have already done it.  Booya!

We also signed Mackenzie up for preschool this past weekend.  She'll start in September and is SUPER excited!  She'll be going two days a week from 9-1 (allowing for some awesome gym time for me!).  As much as I'm sad that she's in such a rush to grow up, I'm not sad about preschool.  She's with me ALL the time!  She needs to be able to establish her own identity & she's going to learn some great things in this school.  Plus, they take pictures of nearly every moment!  =)

Speaking of being in a rush to grow up;
I walked by the boys' room the other day unnoticed.  I decided to take that opportunity to be sort of a creepy mom stalker & just watch them for a little bit.  They're nearly 10, so I don't get these opportunities often. Zach was playing on his PSP, and Luke seemed to be walking around trying to decide what he wanted to do.  They're both skinny, but Luke's on the skinnier side, as loss of appetite was a side effect of his medication.  (We've recently switched bc of that)  So, I'm watching Luke.  His pants are a little baggy on him, just barely catching on his waist...  He's had a recent growth spurt too, so he's this skinny little beanpole with short blonde hair.  He's thinking about something, so his tongue's out & up to the side, lol.  I get this quick little flash, almost like a deja vu, of a boy I went to school with in third grade.  Luke & flashback boy looked so similar right then, it was strange.  My son was reminding me of someone in my own childhood.  It just made me smile.  He's grown up so quickly.  They both have.  10 years is a long time, but in terms of your children, it seems as if it was all just such a short time ago.  I'm sure that'll never change.  I'm sure 20 years will soon seem like a short time ago too. (Eeek!)

So now Luke sees me standing in his doorway and he looks at me a big goofy tooth grin; "Mom, what are you doing?"
"Just being creepy"
Zach laughs from behind his game.

Change is constant.  Might as well try to make it good too.

The road to a thinner [hungrier] me!

It's 10pm, I'm on day TWO..... yup, just day two of the weight watchers diet.
 I. AM. HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!
All I could think of today was how many points everything was going cost me, which I guess is good, (right?) That it was on my mind? But seriously?!?!  I'm totally new at this.  I've never tried counting points, or really even dieting, for that matter.  I don't think I like it!  (I know, I know... insert "Whaaaaa!" here! - & YES, I'd also LOVE some cheese w/ that w(h)ine, but I'd have to check how many points that'll cost me first!!!!!)
I don't think I'm even a very big foodie... The limiting of the foods may really be my main problem.  I've never thought of food so much in my life as I have these past two days.  The very mention of a burger (with blue cheese dressing and fries, btw) made my stomach cry out and I really nearly drooled. I could almost taste it.  Maybe I am a foodie.
Damn!

So yea.... Yayyy for day three!!  So excited!!   [insert eye roll here]

Seriously though, as much I'm not loving this, I'm also NOT lovin on that 'muffin top' even more!  That's right, I said it!  (also said muffin - which doesn't help the hunger...) I'm determined to really do something about it.
I got a little courageous and went to a Zumba class [by my lonesome] yesterday & LOVED IT!  It was so much more fun than I ever imagined I could have while sweaty, breathless, and panting!!  (Besides that! Stay with me here!) I can't wait to do it again!

For now though, I better get to bed...
 I just sat here imagining what there might be in the fridge that's anywhere from 0-2 points for the last 5 minutes!
I think Weight Watchers should be more like AA:  I need a sponsor to call when I'm hungry!!
I guess technically I have one; a close friend of mine is doing this with me.  I'm pretty sure though, that if I called her right now, she'd say how hungry she was too.  We compared points and hunger levels earlier.

So yea, for all the millions out there reading this; [lol]
I need whatever support & helpful tips you can offer!
Thaaaanks!

Crowns For a Cure

I was recently asked to cover a pageant.  The pageant is called Crowns For a Cure, and unlike your typical pageant, this one is to raise funds towards cancer research!  Well why wouldn't I hop on that opportunity?!

There are so many different kinds of cancer out there, and each day cancer takes a member of someone's family.  My mother in law recently lost a kidney to cancer.  We weren't too attached to her kidney ;), so we were just grateful to not have lost her!  She's strong.  She was a survivor even before cancer decided to mess with her.  Now she's more of a conquerer I think. Still though... I'd like to kick Cancer's a$$!

Back to the pageant;
http://www.crownsforacure.net
Chloe Olivia Harding has been crowned as Crowns For a Cure 2011's Sponsored Child, having been diagnosed with Acute Lymphatic Leukemia. At the age of just four months old, that makes her the youngest child in MA to have been diagnosed with this cancer.
The idea for the pageant was inspired by a little cutie named Addison, who's 'Papa' was diagnosed with Leukemia last February.  She'd do anything for her 'Papa', and as a natural little performer & show stopper, the idea practically formed itself!  This pageant is not only in honor of 'Papa', but all who suffer from or have been affected by Cancer.
Proceeds from the Pageant will be donated to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & the Chloe Harding Fund.
Hold on!
I can't finish talking about the pageant without mentioning Jodi LaFountain.  She's Addison's mom, and she made this whole idea into a reality.  She rallied together people, vendors, got the website going, found a location, found Chloe.... and so much more!!  She's got a huge heart & is a very determined person ~ Cancer better watch out for this one!

I've not been to a pageant before, nor have I tried to photograph one.  I've done Birthdays & Weddings... though in both of those scenarios you basically have one or two MAIN subjects and a handful of important ones. In a pageant [i'd imagine] there's a WHOLE BUNCH of main subjects as well as a bunch of important ones!  I'm thinking this calls for reinforcements!  I am, by the way, just one person!
I thought this'd be the perfect opportunity to ask my cousin Stephanie (who also has her own photography business - http://www.stephaniechristinephotography.com/) if she'd like to join forces with me!
We've never collaborated on any projects before, so I thought this would be a great opportunity for the both of us! I was excited to hear back from her that she was interested & thought it would be a great opportunity as well! So now we're just working out details and bouncing ideas off each other.

Now I just have to narrow down some of my favorite images & gets some prints made up & framed for an advertisement table at the pageant! (Which, by the way, I've never done either)
Eeeek!!
This is exciting!

Why I don't do group exercise classes...

So today I didn't really have any good face time with a grown up.  My husband is away for work, and with a sick niece out of school for the day, and a day long snowfall, I've been indoors all day. (With a 5 & 3 year old until 4pm, then two 9 year olds from then on...)  Typically my husband would come home & I'd either talk his ear off until HE wanted to rip his hair out, or I'd RUN to the gym. (Ok, not really RUN... it is, after all, snowing like I mentioned earlier, plus, i'm not in shape - I just want to be) <-No shape jokes thanks!  I would drive there swiftly! ;)
Today, i knew I'd neither have the luxury of talking hubb's ear off OR [swiftly driving to] the gym.  It really felt like the longest day ever. Really.  The girls wanted movie after movie after movie - each one of them not getting watched for longer than 10 minutes, mind you.  The boys came home grumpy about the fact that they have homework. (They ALWAYS have homework.... um, hello?)  I was kind of excited to help them with it - at least it would break up the monotony of the day, but 'Mom helping' to my boys means that they stare into space saying "hhmm..." until I give them the answer somehow.  No thank you. Next!
Dinner...  I could picture myself foaming at the mouth if the kids even dared to complain about anything pertaining to dinner, (which is sort of a norm around here) so I played it safe with chicken nuggets, corn & tater tots.  Dinner went well. 
I decided after dinner, that i just needed a quick exercise session in the living room.  That'd get my spirits up, get the blood flowing... awesome idea.  I sent the boys off to their room to play PSP for 20 minutes (I'm now their hero) & set Kenz up in the tub with the door open so I could hear her.
There's plenty of exercises On Demand on Fios to choose from. (Yes!)  I chose the 10lb slim-down with Chris Freytag.  Not only am I exercising, but she's a grown up, and she's talking to ME!
"Hi Chris!"  (she seems nice)
[Here's where the blog title comes into play...]
So my new friend Chris is doing a Core workout with me today.  She tells me to breath, I'm saying "ok!"  She asks a question & I'm answering!!  This is going great!  What a good idea!
-Zach walks in & is quickly turned around by a breathless "Out!"-  LOL  He must've told his brother of the sight to see, because then comes Luke, "Oh, sorry Mom, sorry!  Sorry to disturb you!"  All the while trying to disguise a grin and pretending to have come out for a toy he could really care less about...
Chris isn't at all distracted,  and she continues on while I yell, "Hold on, do what?!"
I'm really trying to keep up with her, but soon can't help but notice that when she's says "Oh we're really feeling it now!", that she doesn't seem to be 'feeling it' in the same way as I am...  When she says things like, "If you're having difficulty, feel free to modify" I'm really starting to get mad at her.  Of course I need to modify Chris, I'm clearly not in the same shape you are!  Keep pulling my belly to my spine?  This lady's crazy!  "Need some water?"  Uh, yea Chris!!

Ok, I'm back in the game.  Sorry Chris.  I can do this!
"Want to try something new?"  No!!  I just figured this part out!
"You can do it! Now double time!"  &*%$ you & your double time!!
"Ok, now try this one!"  (I can't even begin to describe 'this one' - some sort of running while facing the floor alternating legs thing...)   I tried, I really tried.  I almost somersaulted somehow and ended up rolling around on the floor in loud, tear producing laughter.
Both boys are in the doorway & Kenz is yelling "Mum, what's happening?" from the bathroom.

Well, spirits are up & blood got flowing! ;)
Thanks Chris!

Newbie Blogger?

Ok, so I've NEVER, ever, ever attempted blogging before, and I'm sure there was even a day where I probably swore i never would! Ha!  Well, here I am... wrong again!  (Isn't the first & won't be the last time, I promise - but don't tell my husband that!  I'm never wrong! LOL)
I think I may be blogging to myself for a little while - or at least until I figure out what it is I plan to say on here!
I'd like to merge all my 'personalities' or 'hats', if you will, onto here.... What the heck does THAT mean??
Well, i'm not exactly sure...  but here's what I think is the explanation:
I recently realized that quite often, you only know as much as someone wants you to know about them.  It's too easy sometimes to be one person 'here', and another person 'there'; and while different situations in life certainly call for a different perspective, attitude, and maybe even sort of a personality adjustment...  I'd like to try to merge them all - right here!
Something like:
LMZ Photography's 'Camera Lady', Jeff's wife, Lucas, Zachary & Mackenzie's Mom, a Daughter, Sister, Aunt & Friend.... all rolled into one!
That's right, I'll be sharing images, session experiences, laundry woes, married life, the trials, tribulations & successes of my children, and just all around day to day life  & random thoughts... all my 'hats' combined!

(Coming soon to a theater near you?)