Tuesday October 5, 2010

Best Part of the Day-
Today was the gorgeous fall day of my littles' gorgeous fall photo shoot. We planned to meet the photographer on the grounds of St. Francis Seminary in Bayview. A perfect setting with crunchy leaves and sunny sun. The kids did alllllright.

Worst Part of the Day-
I guess I should've just scheduled this on a day when Will-O was out of town. And perhaps on a day off completely so I could've gussied up. A weeee bit o' stress may have led me to look a weee bit of faking me smiles...
I had to work my standard 8 hours and asked Will-O to have the kids bathed and ready to rock when I came in the door (we would have 15 minutes to get to the shoot.) The kids were bathed, but they were all in the basement watching a movie and then no one wanted to leave. Oh, but Liam was in undies only as I didn't lay out the outfit for him. Huh. So, late, late and whines and stress en route to shoot.
Several times I had to stress to the photographer to focus on the kids as Will-O suddenly had his shirt off and was rolling around in the grass with the momentarily clean and pressed kiddies. Then any time I stopped to fix Scarl's hair (I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars to get 80 pics of her with hair-covered face...) I would get a "don't contrive everything...let it be natural." (Yes, naturally contrived, my friend.) Please think more Christmas card photo and less Rolling Stone cover. Just this once. Semi-exhausting and not what I was going for (/paid for.)

Happy Special Day to Brother Mike!!!! I am glad you are not yet 30. That would cause me to freak out...I remember the day you were born. I was irked you were not a girl--but I'm glad you are you!