I am lucky girl

I have a handful of projects going on, all of which are keeping me busy as I plan, organize, think, photograph, and write. I am doing my first maternity shoot this weekend and it is consuming me as I map out poses, props, and lighting, both in my head and on paper. I am blogging here semi-regularly and am going to begin blogging again at MotherVerse as often as I can. I have a concept photography project that I am plotting out with hopes that it will be part of a show in June. An article topic proposal that I submitted for an upcoming anthology was accepted by the editors, meaning that I now actually have to write the article. On top of all of these undertakings I am not been feeling well as of late. My joints and muscles are screaming at me constantly, and I am doing a Prednisone trial starting today. My health issues mean that when I am not busy with my projects and taking care of the kids, I pretty much want to be laying on the couch resting.

I am loving having so much going on in my life right now (except for the health stuff, of course). I am keeping busy, but unfortunately I am not bringing any money in with my various adventures. Actually, my undertakings are in some cases costing us a fair amount of money. Yet, through it all my wonderful husband does not complain at all. (Well, maybe a little bit, but it usually in fun.) He is my biggest fan and he stands by me as I jump into project after project, including another one that I decided at 10:15 PM last night that I want to try to get involved in. He encourages me and he doesn't get upset when I announce that I need to take time or money to work on and complete another of my crazy projects. And at the end of the day when I am tired and hurting he empathizes with me, and he does not get upset when he comes home to a trashed house for the fourth day in a row because I was too sick or busy with my projects and having fun with the kids to get around to cleaning up.

There is no way that I would be able to pursue photography and writing as I am if it was not for my husband's love and support. There is no way that I would be able to stay home with our children if it weren't for his willingness to get up and go to work everyday, despite the fact that I know his job can be incredibly stressful and trying for him. For everything that he does for me and our children I want to publicly say to him, "Thank-you". You are everything to me, Scott, and words cannot adequately express how blessed myself and the kids are to have you. I love you!

Oh, and by the way Scott, thanks for last night too. ;-)