my favorite time of year...

Once again, my favorite time of year arrives.  It is the time where the winter boarders have left school and right before summer camp begins.  The weather is always breathing new life back into my pale complection and the stress of the school year slides off.

The school year has passed and it feels as if I am starting with a whole clean slate.  There is so much I cover during the year with photos and it can be a bit daunting.  The stress of it all overwhelms me at times.  During these next couple of weeks, I purge photos, edit like mad, and anxiously await the final projects.  I always worry I don't take enough images...then I look back and have hundreds to sift through.  Luckily one of my favorite things to do is edit down photos.  It is kind of like a sick compulsion.  Strange, I know.

Last week Ava "graduated" from preschool.  They do not have any formal little ceremony and for that I am hugely grateful.  It is hard enough to walk out those doors of idillyc paradise of learning that if they put a little graduation hat on her, you would probably have to scrape me up off of the floor.  I did however come to realize that in all my angst of her leaving, I almost forgot to recognize that it was a wonderful beginning...more than I could have ever hoped for or wanted, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Manny is getting so big and independent.  He stands on his stool in the bathroom and runs his toothbrush under the sink to brush his own teeth.  It is really quite a cute image of us in the morning...me drying my hair, manny and ava brushing their teeth while Ava tells me something that happened or talks about some tiny detail she remembers about an event all the while shocked I don't remember the same thing.

This week is very busy for me...not surprising...I have 4 photo shoots between now and Sunday, a haircut, funeral, dentist appointment for Ava, and a visit with a friend.  I am really looking forward to the visit.  :-)

Next week I start TASP photos and running their daily blog.  I cannot share the blog info with you since it is of children and we try our best to protect their privacy.  The blog is daily and so are the photos for 6 weeks.  On weekends I have private photo shoots scheduled so please forgive me if this blog gets neglected  from now until then.