Things I did in an effort to keep myself awake when I had to drive to Jackson, TN at 5 a.m. this weekend for a wedding after having shot a wedding the night before: 1. drank two Diet Cokes 2. drank one sip of an energy drink (disgusting) 3. pulled over at a truck stop [...]

I love you, too, Miss Fourteen.

Birthday gifts I’m shipping to my little cousin, Ella. (Posted late, but taken on day 147.)

Internet, my college girls are IN BIG TROUBLE. For some reason, they think that just because it is summer, they can up and leave their mother Amy Beth for weeks at a time.  It first started with these two delinquents: Kim and Cassidy decided that, hey, why not jump on a plane with their classmates [...]

A trip to the doctor on my lunch break, to see if we can adjust the medicine I’m taking for my ovarian problems. I’ve been on it for one month and two days and, for those 32 days, I haven’t gone one night without a vivid, terrifying nightmare. It’s a side effect of the medicine, [...]

If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you probably remember my days with Starlite.  But if that word means nothing to you, here’s a quick rundown – When I was 18, I started a volunteer organization named Starlite Ministries which, over the next 6.5 years, went on to offer programs to girls in grades [...]

Something was completely off today. When I got home and started cooking dinner for the kids, I realized exactly what it was: I hadn’t had enough mothering time lately. Work is great, photography is swell but I want to mother those kids more than those things. (Posted late, but taken on day 145.)

In honor of yesterday being the oddest fostering day yet (let’s just say it involved a birth parent of one of my girls proposing to me*), I present a list for your reading pleasure: * My reply was a polite “Tempting, but no.” 1. Before I became a foster mother, I gave up caffeine and [...]

Full purse, full day, full life. (Posted late, but taken on day 144.)

Oh, you were wondering how shooting five weddings in a span of three weekends is going? Well, take a look at a little peek from the first wedding and see for yourself! (Click on any image to view in full size.) I’d say I’m off to a good start, so far.  Three weddings down, two [...]