the life and times of a domestic diva extraordinaire
Posted in Life at Our House, Photography on Dec 17th, 2008
I had all these great plans in October to get pictures taken of the boys, the family calendar made so my parents could bring it to Kentucky in November instead of shipping it to me, and all of my Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving, too.
Well, I have no idea what happened, but those plans never [...]
Posted in Life at Our House, Photography on Nov 21st, 2008
My camera is kaput.
Last weekend, Steve wanted pizza. So when I went to the grocery store, I bought a Four Cheese Freschetta pizza. But that didn’t do the trick, because the next day, Steve was asking for pizza again. We had a coupon for Valentino’s, so we decided to go there.
And since we [...]
Posted in Photography on Nov 3rd, 2008
I went out and tried to take portraits of the boys this morning. Portraits for people to frame and display prominently in their living room. Yeah. Those portraits.
I haven’t really done that before. All of my shots have been candid with whatever the boys were doing [and wearing] at the time. But I knit those [...]
Posted in Photography on Sep 19th, 2008
Posted in Photography on Aug 4th, 2008
I’m having a crisis. [Said with a tremor in my voice.]
Steve’s Dad has a 1940-something grain truck he wants to sell. Of course, he needs a good picture of it in order to list it online. But it needs to be cleaned up first.
This Thursday and Friday, Steve is going to be working up near [...]
Posted in Out and About, Photography on Jul 29th, 2008
Last Wednesday, the boys and I drove down to Oklahoma for a family reunion. Yesterday, we returned. Before we left, I told everyone we’d be back today. Now I’m regretting not telling them we’d be back tomorrow. Quite frankly, I need a vacation.
A sit-on-the-couch-and-knit-all-day-with-not-a-care-in-the-world kind of vacation.
Some stats for you:
Total miles driven: 1288
Miles each way: [...]