Better in Bulk - Family photographer with a large family
Daily thoughts on living with a large family. I often share the tips I've learned as a photographer on how to get better pictures.
I’ve spent considerable time over the last 6 months complaining about our broken dishwasher. On a good day, I would spend a full hour washing dishes-for-seven by hand. On an average day, I spent closer to 2 hours washing dishes. And on a bad day, my kitchen looked like this: Stacks and stacks of rinsed [...]
The New Year is right around the corner, and with the new year comes New Years Resolutions. I have never been a huge fan of once-a-year resolutions, and prefer instead to work on goals throughout the year. However, this year in particular, I’ve been noticing my reflection in the mirror….and I am determined more than [...]
When CandyMan and I got married in April 1995, one of our first purchases on that big wedding-money-shopping-spree was a microwave. I purposefully bought the largest microwave I could find, with all the bells and whistles, similar to this GE Profile, because I knew that we’d be using it a lot. And I wanted something [...]
The school-wide Halloween parade has got to be my favorite part of Halloween (the parade is only slightly ahead of the post-trick-or-treating candy tasting). This year, AJ decided at the last minute that he no longer wanted to be the werewolf and would rather dress in his size 2T-3T knight costume instead. Luckily, I was [...]
When my babies got their first tiny baby teeth, they were nothing short of perfect. Little, white (sharp!), perfect little teeth. And then they got another and another and it became clear that the teeth might not be lining up quite right.. There were spaces where there should be none and over-laps where there should [...]
Alternately titled: Why Little Girls Should Not Be Allowed to do Mommy’s Make-up Reese, age seven and a half, is currently fascinated by my make up. And since I love to be pampered, I have agreed – twice in the last week! – to let her give me a make-over. The first time she did [...]
Raise your hand if, as a youth, you ever wrote a letter to yourself, to be opened many years in the future. I know I did. I stumbled upon a blog post entitled Listen to Your Own Advice and loved the idea of the older me writing a letter to a younger me. Just like [...]
KitKat has always had a beautiful smile. She is confident and kind, and smiles openly and frequently. But she has spent many years being self conscious of her smile. When her teeth came in, it became very clear that she was going to take after her daddy’s side of the family. She was cursed with [...]
You might recall a post here last month about the Amazing Avocado, along with a favorite family recipe. At the time, I was submitting the recipe to an avocado recipe contest (with a grand prize of $5000). Now, a month later, I am happy to announce (if you haven’t heard all of my tweeting and [...]
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