Okay, I’m so excited, I can’t not bust a gut on this any longer! Next Thursday I’ll be packing up and heading to Atlanta for our first ever Pixel Chicks Workshop! If you’re a regular to the blog, you’ve heard me talk about my group of ever so talented photographer friends - I’m so proud/in awe/amazed by them. They are my inspiration, my backbone, my daily dose of sanity and I cannot wait - like, more excited than a kid on Christmas morning - to see them!!!

We have so many things in store - a night shoot, a boudoir shoot, a maternity shoot, a baby shoot….suffice to say, it’ll be a packed 4 days but just the thought of it has me doing the happy dance (just in case you’re not sure what the happy dance looks like).

Here are some of the chicks I’ll be hanging with - check out their awesome work!

Megan Peck Photography

Julie Monacella Photography

Cindy Harter Photography (our hostess with the mostus!)

Alli Gaulin Photography

Picture Perfect by Candy

Denise Snyder Photography

Sherry Boles Photography

Allison Greenwood Photography

Hayley Hamlin Photography

And here is one of my all time favs from a trip to NY a few years ago…

From left to right: Candy, Julie and Megan

You can also check out our fledging blog here…we’re working on it, we’re working on it! We all are insanely busy like so many other working mamas out there so, what can I say? It’s on our To-Do list! fo sur fo sur!

I’m surrounded. Absolutely, completely surrounded. As I look outside at the gray, overcast winter day, I know this is a perfect day to be doing this. Business has settled down for a few weeks in the post-holiday exhalation and with the ringing in of the new year, there is no better time. And it’s so rare for me to get free days, let alone free moments, so truly, this is the time.

And yet, if someone hollered at me, I’d be out of here, like - pronto. Like, in a flash (please holler!!!)

Yep, I’m sitting surrounded by invoices, receipts, bank statements, credit cards statements….bla-blah, bla-blah, bla-blah! It’s the dreaded tax prep, end-of-year paper fest. One which I would (my accountant would kill me if she read this) gladly, thankfully, happily, joyfully, ecstaticly pass on, give away, do away with every year if I could! She tells me to embrace it. She tells me (I think she secretly moonlights as a motivational speaker) to learn it all, grasp it all, have a steady handle on it all. And as a business owner, I recognize the shrewdness of this advice. I do. Honestly. I get it. Thoroughly. Thoroughly.

But that doesn’t mean I have to like it!!! And man, I’m putting a whole new definition to the statement ‘don’t like it!’

Sigh. And then in one of my several moments of distraction (can you say procrastination???) I saw this image I took yesterday of my daughter holding up her new backpack and thought “wouldn’t it be nice to be queen for a day?” Someone to do everything. Me to do nothing. Usually, that’d drive me crazy but today…well…ahhhh, it does sound nice.

And a total side note of random craziness, I’ve become re-addicted to a song to old to be re-addicted to and yet it lives and thrives still and so, I’m putting it on the blog. Let’s go ol’ school today. Rock on.