another year...

another first day of school. I can't even believe how fast time flies. I know everyone says it, and it's totally cliche, but ever think about the fact that maybe cliches got that way cuz they're true!?

anyways, I followed andy to his first day of kindergarten today... I remember a year ago, when I cried like a baby. I didn't cry today, but I was close.

In other events, I was able to recover my accounting files from my laptop which has played it's last movie, typed it's last letter, sang it's last windows start up song... it's a goner. I'm gonna scrap it for parts. But after recovering the hard drive last night I have been able to catch up on my accounting and i feel so much better :) There are a lot of other things I can do now that I have that hard drive back, like for example, fixing my photo blog which is in need of some tlc right now...

oh yah, and so much for posting every day for at least a month... ugh, why can't I do it!?

first day of school

Today was the first day of school for the kids...

This girl seriously cracks me up.

I tell her, ok let's take some pictures...

And she just goes for it. She goofs around and has fun, and I always end up with cute and fun pictures of her. Of course, she's also gorgeous and so when she does look at the camera and smile, you know that in a couple years she is no longer going to be allowed out of the house.

Sydney is going to middle school! She decided to try riding the bus in the mornings... so we waited for it to come this morning.

It was scheduled to come at 8:05, and at approximately 8:06 a long yellow bus sped by the house. No stopping, no slowing down.

What a bummer! we waited another 5 minutes to see if another bus would come... but it didn't.

So we got the keys and were just about to head out in the car when...

her actual bus pulled up.

And this time... it's not a short bus hahaha!

he's not even my kid...

but I definitely cried on his first day of school.

what am I going to do when I actually have my own!?!

stress induced artwork

The beginning of this week and all of last week are going down in my personal history chronicles as one of the most stressful weeks of my life. i really didn't think that i was all that stressed out. I don't usually get cranky so much, I just exhibit physical symptoms of stress... therefore i don't realize how bad it is until something really traumatic happens to me!

For example, this summer as a result of many stressful situations I started losing my hair... thus the reason i now have short hair. But this time I have contracted the weirdest cold/virus i have ever had. I don't feel sick in my body like all day, then all of a sudden it hits me like a load of bricks and my throat swells up to the size of a pencil and i am so tired i start getting vertigo. and then i take a little snoozer and am good for another few hours. and it's not that i'm not getting any sleep, because i definitely am.

But at any rate, I am coming out the other side of this stress and I am starting to feel really great... not physically, but emotionally. I have been in this great drawing class all semester and I wanted to post my two points of pride and joy for everyone to see. These two pieces almost make this stress bearable :)



the leaf one was done all with soft pastels and then the black and white one is with india ink... they make me happy