For some reason I feel the need to write about my glamorous life…really it is! Lately I have had an overflow of cute comments about my being a photographer. Such as “Cherie you are gifted” “before you know it you’ll be buying one of those big homes up in the foothills” “how do you take pictures like that?” “I wish I could do that” …and so on. Don’t get me wrong, I love to hear a nice compliment. I don’t think I have ever had so many nice things said about me before and I am grateful that God is allowing me to do this. Any ability to do photography has to be a gift from God because He knows that school just was not my thing! But as far as me buying a big house up in the foothills…no where near that yet! I wish we were because as everyone knows I am longing to bust out of this place. So I thought I would catch everyone up on my glamorous day today:
7:00am I crawl out of bed with a 3 year old saying “mommy get up” 7:30 I realize I better get Ry ready for school and then ask Doug to take him 7:45am check email…oh crap an order of an album and christmas cards…when do I have the time to design this? 8:00am did I really leave the house this messy from yesterday? I take a picture to show my online forum of photographer friends what the christmas season is doing to my house. 8:30am do I start with the sink overflowing with dishes or the 6 loads of laundry? Or the floor in every room that is covered in junk? 9:00am check out the other pictures from my photographer friends homes..oh good it’s not just me we are all swamped 9:15am start cleaning the house it gets picked up but no dishes or laundry are getting done 10:30 client calls to chat about her album and cards…crap is Kim still watching tv? 11:30am forget it I am going to photograph my own child for a little bit..I throw a chair in my car and set off to a boarded up house 12:30pm I have amazing pictures of my girlie (this is the time I thank God for the ability to freeze them this small, if only in pictures) 1:00pm I process a few photos she is so cute! soon I have to get Ry from school 3:30 starts the process of homework and studying for a 15 word spelling and phonogram test 5:00pm daddy gets home…at least the floor is picked up right? 6:00pm we go to a school fundraiser 8:00 we get home and Ry still has more homework then off to bed 9:00pm I finally start my photography work and half miss my favorite show survivor, the album is almost done so now I can blog a bit.
….so the dish pile is even higher and poor Doug works 3 jobs so it’s not like I can bug him to do it (although I bet he will) the clean clothes will now be pushed off the bed another night and back on to the floor. Then put back on the bed tomorrow agian. I need to shower but I am much too tired for that and poop I just remembered that I have a shoot at 7:30am tomorrow morning and one at 2:00pm so I need to charge batteries and clear off cards. My life is wonderful, busy, a smidge crazy, fast paced, a bit messy and glamorous!
My thought on this is… the more square footage of a house means more square footage to clean. I will admit I’m not a very good house keeper. My home is neat, but not clean. I have several friends who’s homes are always spotless. They have house keepers that come once a week and they clean in between those cleanings. In my opinion they live in their own personal hell and so do their kids. I would rather have a semi-messy house where my kids and their friends can feel comfortable, than a house that looks like a museum.