The Stupidity Continues

Without skipping a beat, the stupidity continues to this day at our house. All last week, Caden had a really high fever and Pete and I took turns staying home from work with him. To further complicate things, we were supposed to be heading up to New London, Connecticut for a family reunion early Friday morning. It was touch and go, and at one point we'd made up our minds that Pete would stay home with Caden and I would just go by myself. So we cancelled their train reservations and I switched mine to leave Friday afternoon and come back earlier than planned. Then by Friday afternoon Caden was fine, so we bought them tickets again (more expensive of course), and re-reserved the rental car (double the price), and hauled ass up to CT on the train.

I have to say here that Caden was SUCH a trooper about the whole thing and he deserves ice cream every night until he's at least 7 years old. I'm so glad we made it and I'll write more about the weekend in my next post.

... But back to the stupidity. On monday morning I wake up with Caden's fever and Pete has pink eye by the time we get home. Sweet.

Back in the Saddle Again...

A few weeks ago I got an email out of the blue from one of my brides. I shot Jennifer and Matt's wedding a few years ago and really liked them. They'd since both done tours of duty in the military, had a baby, moved overseas, and then come back. She was wondering if I could take some family photos.

It was really nice to get back behind the camera for a while, and the whole thing was easy since we already had a good photographer/photographee(?) relationship. And god bless them, they've agreed to be my guinea pigs on a sound-with-photo idea that I have. More on that later.

Thanks Jen and Matt!

This Week was Stupid

This whole past week was just annoying and stupid. I'm going to summarize here so hopefully I can clear the bad juju and get on with things.

The badness begins on Saturday when I get a stupid haircut. It's all uneven and weird looking, plus she didn't thin out the ends. I have really thick hair, so when you don't thin out the ends, it looks all puffy and blocky. In short, I'm suffering from triangle head.

Same Saturday: We go to a bbq, only to have Caden announce 20 minutes later that he wants to go home and then stands at the door. We fight this fight for about half an hour until it's clear nobody will have any fun. We leave.

Tuesday: Caden throws the biggest screaming tantrum I have ever seen. On the front lawn. Neighbors stop their yard work to watch.

Wednesday: Okay, so I am about 7 months pregnant, and your body does weird things when you're pregnant. You know that red dot on my forehead? I call it my bindi, or my third eye of consciousness. Not to ruin the mystique, but it's really a blood vessel close to the top of my skin. Well, another one randomly crops up right above my lip a few weeks ago. On Wednesday at noon it pops, and blood starts pouring out of my face. I have to keep a towel pressed to it or else all hell breaks loose. It keeps going and going. I go through work like this. I have to walk into Caden's school like this to pick him up. We get home and I'm trying to get all of our bags and junk through the door with one hand like this. I have to let go in order to get milk and snacks. Blood pouring into my mouth. I knock over a WHOLE CONTAINER of juice in the refrigerator. I loose it. Finally stop bleeding at 10:00 that night.

Thursday: Very nice huge red scab on my lip. And remember my stupid triangle hair?

Friday: Go to different salon to get hair fixed. Come out looking like Carol Brady circa 1978. Only puffier on top. 

See what I mean? STUPID.