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Like a dream

October 10th, 2011

My friend, Keli, is in town, she’s an awesome photographer. She came over and I handed my Nikon into her Canon-loving hands and asked her to take a few photos of my family and I. She’s a quick study and rocked my Nikon. She took the first three photos here:

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I’ll be back with, like, words and stuff soon. I have so much to tell you, like, how I’m sleeping better than I have in months. or how Eli grew 12 inches in the past two weeks. or how much Anna loves being a big sister to a little sister. or how Noah acts like Clara has been in our family for years.

So, basically, I’ll come back and tell you that my kids are awesome, THE END.

Unleash your happy

August 31st, 2011

My bright, intelligent and talented soul sister, Jennifer Helen came up with the concept of Triple W a few years ago. Triple W is a workshop for the working woman, a place to learn how to integrate work and life. She did what so many of only wish we could do. She built on that concept, her dream and now that dream is a reality. I attended last year’s workshop and within hour one, I sat in the chair, my body numb from what I was listening to, my life feeling changed for the better. As each hour passed, the feeling expanded, my head wanted to explode from what I was hearing. From the very basic ideas of what makes woman tick, how men and women are different, how to seek peace from the moment you wake in the morning until the moment you lay your head on your pillow at night, to listening to your creative side and how to transform your life into something less stressful, more beautiful, MORE YOU. (and once the workshop is over, it doesn’t leave you, you have take-aways and partners you work with once you’re back at home in the midst of appointments and diapers and getting ready for work.) The idea is brilliant. The workshop is absolutely life changing.

This year the workshop is taking place at Google in Chicago on September 16th and 17th. Right now, TWF is offering a discount of $100 that ends THIS FRIDAY, September 2nd. I promise you, you will only regret NOT attending. You (and your family, your spouse, your friends, your employers) will gain so much by attending this. I could not love this workshop more. You can find more information about the workshop here:

And if you’re going this year, tell me in the comments. I’d love to be one of your accountability partners for the following year. I will not be attending TWF this year because of my pregnancy status but I will be making my Life Transformation Plan, as I did last year. Last year at TWF, I announced to my accountability partner that “I am a photographer.” Which was a very difficult thing to say. I said these words and I followed them around and I felt them in my hands and I sat with them for hours and soon, I truly believed and now, one year later, I have a successful, money-making photography business. TWF taught me to REACH for the stars, gave me the courage to put myself out there and also taught me how to do just that.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me or I can put you in direct contact with Jennifer Helen. (and then you’ll meet her and probably die because she’s one of the most beautiful, genuine, soulful people YOU WILL EVER MEET. And this is truth and can be backed up by hundreds of people.)

Anyway. JUST GO.

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You can “like” Triple W on Facebook and find out a ton of information about it here. Also, check out the photos from last year’s event.

One more thing about Jennifer Helen. She and I have known each other for a very, very long time. Something like, seventeen years. She is married, has three bright and hilarious children, she’s a yoga instructor, she has her own business. She doesn’t just put these workshops together, she IS this workshop. She lives it and breathes it and is a true testimony that integration of work and life (and spirit and soul) is completely possible. (literally every.single. detail of this workshop is considered.)

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She and I have spent countless, COUNTLESS hours sitting at restaurants, eating six different appetizers, drinking coffee or beer, and we talk. And talk. And talk. And every time I leave that table and hug her goodbye (her hugs are by far the greatest things in the universe), I leave feeling fulfilled and light. Like I just had the best and most effective and life changing therapy session. So, when she first told me about this “workshop” and this idea that she’s working on. All I could think was, “of course it will come together and be a success because if I can sit across from her a table in a diner for three hours and we are talking about work and family and life and I feel like I’m in the presence of pure greatness, then how would it feel to spend a WEEKEND listening to the very people who shape HER.” And? She speaks, too. And you fall in love with her and the butterflies and her soul and TWF. And everything comes together and for the first time in a long time you remember how beautiful life is SUPPOSED to be but you lost sight of that because life is chaotic and hard and demanding.

But she reminds you.

And then every time you’re driving and the sun filters through your windows, and you’re sitting at a stop light (which you won’t mind doing after TWF), you’ll see a beautiful and unique butterfly fluttering across your windshield, you’ll be reminded of the greatness of this life. YOUR LIFE.

And you’ll think of Jennifer Helen and you’ll close your eyes briefly and breathe a soft breath and you’ll remember that life is that moment. So, what will you make of it?

This post? Is NOT sponsored. It comes from MY heart, MY mind and MY soul. I’m sharing this with you because it’s beautiful and life changing and it’s something I love and want to share with all of you.

Tuesday

June 21st, 2011

I just ate toast with strawberry jam. I’m drinking orange juice, not so much because it sounded good but because I would like to feel baby girl kick a bit more. She’s an unpredictable little babe, sometimes she kicks and punches like crazy, one time, I could feel her head, her punches and her kicks all at the same time and then other times, she’s so very quiet. I know much of the quiet has to do with how little I’ve been sitting or resting, which I’m hoping to change soon. These past 8 days have been busier than I could have imagined, which is good because once the kids are in bed and I’m finally sitting with a bowl of ice cream on my belly, sadness kicks in. I just start to feel nothing, maybe.

I don’t know.

So much has happened over the past 8 days, beginning with Sam’s passing. Two other people who impacted our family passed away, as well. I’ve been working non-stop, Eli has been so sick or cutting teeth or something that’s causing him to only cry – not eat or sleep, just cry.

I dare not complain.

In fact, I lay in bed at night and think about the sweetness that occurred in my day. The people I was able to meet and hug last week, my children, who knew Samantha, being extra sensitive and so very sweet to their Mama and my husband doing everything he can to help me and the family and even Samantha’s family. Anna hasn’t really left my side since last week. Even when I nap, she “naps,” too by sitting on my bed and reading a book or coloring. I fall asleep to the sound of her crayons hitting the bottom of the container and the sound of choosing another color. The type of sound that can lead you directly to your childhood.

I think I’m just living in fear right now. As if last week God reminded me to not get too comfortable. A big booming voice in my head that said “I’ve taken away before…” And then I remember where we’ve gone these past few years, how far we’ve come and how quickly it can disappear again. Emotionally, I’m holding on tighter but emotionally I am so scared of the unimaginable happening.

I’m okay, I promise you. And my orange juice is working, so now I’m feeling even a little bit better.

There’s a lot of darkness but also a lot of light. I’m doing what I can do focus on the light.

Friday Morning Coffee

June 3rd, 2011

I’m sitting on my couch, drinking coffee, listening to Eli NOT sleep through the monitor, which is really strange because he’s been such a great sleeper lately.

But today? I really need him to sleep.

I have about a trillion things on my mind right now, like a really cool session I have tonight or the six mini-sessions I have tomorrow, or family in town to visit, or my insanely messy and I’ll be honest, DIRTY house. Or the fact that I’m frustrated that I feel like my kids aren’t loving enough. And I don’t mean they don’t snuggle enough, I just think they aren’t LOVING enough. Things. People. Ideas, etc.

I try to remind myself that it’s probably just a phase. Kids are selfish! Right? But, still, the things I’m seeing and hearing hurt my heart and are affecting me a great deal.

So, they’ve inspired me to simplify my life with less things. Less Barbies and Cars and even less books and less Legos and more walks and swinging and picnics with bologna sandwiches and watermelon and Oreos.

For Christmas I asked for this book and I finally just cracked it open last week and it’s speaking to me LOUDLY.


(I was going to take a photo of this book on my white nightstand against my blue wall and the green accents of my quilt, it would have looked so cool but I decided to simplify and skip that part. But trust me, it would have been a pretty photo.)

It’s written by a blogger, whose name is Tsh. Even her name is simple.

So, Tsh is speaking to me with her words (without her even realizing it) and it’s helping me mentally so now I just have to physically simplify which is hard with 9 sessions in one week (don’t fret, six of those are minis) and three kids and a baby girl dancing in my belly and a husband who works and goes to grad school and eating lots of ice cream and and and and and…

but I’m going to do it. RIGHT NOW.

It’s funny because my big huge projects, like reorganizing my master bathroom, which, I assure you, is a BIG BIG project and probably wasn’t done properly when we moved here three years ago, well, after my shower yesterday, I just reorganized one little shelf in my linen closet and guess what? I love it. I took a piece of the GIANT PROJECT LOOMING OVER MY HEAD and took a slice and completed it and it helped me.

(and motivated me)

So, that’s where I’m at today. I’m extremely happy. Crazy overwhelming. But definitely inspired.

I love being inspired.

And now? Eli is sleeping so I have lots of work to do starting right now.

Happy Friday, friends!

 

Pretty

May 31st, 2011

Isn’t my blog pretty?

If you’re reading in a reader, click through and take a peek and tell me what you think! My friend Nicole over at Pixel Boutique, once again, has amazed me with her skills.

I’m happy, it feels so feminine and soft. It’s a good place to be.

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