Macro Friday!

Hey, look at this! I'm alive!

I even actually have a Macro Friday post!


Quick update.....more detailed post to come!

1. We got the house! They accepted our offer, working on Bank commitment (we had the pre-approval, but this is the next step...)It has pretty much taken over my life, at the moment, but we hope to have closing by December....

2. Blood testing for S is imminent....have to pick up the order in a little while. Hope fully, will do it tomorrow, or Monday at the latest.

3. Photography business is slowly, but surely, starting to build. :) I've got a few upcoming things, and I recently did a wedding. Having a blast though, and that's what counts :)

So, hop on over the Blogging from Bolivia, and check out all the other cool Macro pics!

PS House update coming soon, with photos!

My Genius...

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.”












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Happy Craziness!

One of these days, I'll have to get into talking about my past, because it really explains what a miracle all this stuff is in my life.

We've had lots of very happy stuff going on lately...stuff I'm excited to share about!

(For everyone who's praying for us too, S's appointment is on the 7th with her local pediatrician......the 15th and the 26th, we make the long journey out to see people on her cleft team.....hopefully, we'll have results from the Thyroid/pituitary testing I'm pushing to have done here locally, so we can see if there's a problem, and if there is, find a road map...)

One really cool thing that happened lately, is I was contacted by the PR director of our hospital.....they had used our story for their annual appeal last year, which resulted in over $8,000 in donations for the cleft and craniofacial team. This alone made my heart sing, but I was so honored by what else she had to say. Apparently, she had asked the cleft team if they knew of any other families that might be interested in putting themselves out there and letting them share their story....their response? "You should give Lindsay a call....she's more in touch with our families than we are! She'd have a pretty good idea of who may, or may not, be interested."

It is such an honor to be able to reach out and help other families that are starting this journey, not that we're a little bit further down on the path.


Anyway, in our super UBER big news.....we may be buying a house! We're waiting to hear if our offer was accepted, but we're so excited by this possibility! It's next door to my parents house too, and it puts the kids much closer to their school! Praying we hear back today or tomorrow, but we were able to get the pre-approval bank-wise....now it's just a matter of them agreeing, and us moving forward with all things home-ownership!

Anyway, more to come soon! So excited to see what's on this path God's laid in front of us!

Wishing I had all the answers...

So, we're still waiting on our newly rescheduled cleft team appointment, but we had a height/weight check this morning, and, well, S has dropped off the height chart. Six months ago, we finally were on the base of the height chart, and now we've dropped off it. :(

This isn't great news. See, being short is all fine and dandy, but not following your natural growth curve is most decidedly not. When you have a cleft, any midline organ can be affected. Heart, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, .....anything that crosses that center line, can have problems. I need to call up her pediatrician, and request testing on her thyroid and pituitary gland.

I don't want to.

Plain and simple.

I just want to keep enjoying this beautiful little girl, who is such a happy little joy, and leave all this medical crap behind us. Just bury my head in the sand, plug my ears, and loudly sing "lalalalalalalaalalal" to myself....to just scoop her up in my arms and run away.

Sigh.....I better go find the phone and make some appointments. I know God's got us firmly in his arms....

Macro Friday...the return!

Ok, I gotta make this quick, as S is trying to paint my diningroom with chocolate milk......

This is one I took quite a long time ago, but never shared!



Hop on over to Blogging from Bolivia, and check out all the other great macro shots!

I'll be posting more photos soon! :) Trying to get caught up....have had lots to do for my little photography business I've been working on starting up!

Be Blessed!

Foiled Again!

Just when I think I'm gonna get back on the bloggy-ball,..... I get SICK!

For those of you who know me in real life, I tend to push through feeling yucky.....I just keep doing when I do, taking care of my family, etc......doing my Mommmy thing.

Except every once in a while, I get sidelined by a nasty bug.....I stop being functional for a couple days. It really throws everyone off...the house gets a mess, laundry doesn't get done, children wind up buying school lunches....

and then it takes me forever to get caught back up!

On a happy note, I got the honor of photographing a wedding this weekend......my first wedding for someone who doesn't know me at all!

I'm really so behind.... I need to do a birthday post for my sweet little S.....for that matter, I need to do a birthday shoot for her too!

In the meantime though, I need some sleep! I'll leave you with a photo of my M from the other day, that I took for Faith's photography class...


Nite you guys! Be Blessed!

Before/After....and why I've been missing....

Ok, charity game I was hired to photograph is done. I am one tired Mama!
I will be posting photos from it a little later.....for right now, I need a basketball break!

So, as I've mentioned, I'm taking Faith's DSLR class, and it's awesome...... I'm having a BLAST learning my camera better!

So, for my before/after this week, I'm going to use one of the portraits I did of my daughter, R...

Before:


After:


She is my Diva, for sure! Here's a few more of my rock star...



and channeling her inner Janis Joplin...


Hop on over the Pixel Perfect, and see everyone's amazing edits this week!

Here's a few other shots I've taken for Faith's class in the past week or so....









Oh, ok..... one basketball photo from the charity game....



As for me, we've got a appointment next week with S's surgeon.....it's just your standard every six months visit, but it makes my stomach get all butterfly-ish....I mean, we just never know. We could go there next week, and have him see something in her mouth that needs fixing, and find ourselves gearing up for surgery again. Not what I want to have happen, but I'm trying to prepare myself in case. That's the tough thing, the care is so individualized after the first year, there's no laid out, set in stone path we are following. During her first year, I KNEW she's be having lip/nose surgery between 3 - 6 months, and I KNEW between 10 - 12 months, she'd have palate surgery.......now everything that lays out in front if us is full of possibles and maybes. ::::Sugh::::: I know it'll be ok no matter what. God's there, walking me through it all, even when I only see one set of footprints in the sand.....