i have had a rough week. don’t get me wrong…i am so blessed to be able to stay home and spend time with my son, but sometimes i am just worn out. i’m worn out physically, emotionally, and mentally. the past 6 weeks my husband and i have been faced with crazy news left and right. we’ve dealt with each thing thrown at us, as it has come. if there is one thing that i am completely grateful for and that i tend to take for granted…it’s my husband and his love and patience for me. i get stressed…like, really easily! he on the other hand, is a ‘fly by the seat of his pants’ kinda guy. he just deals with something and moves on. blows my mind every time.

i’ve faced a few challenges just this week. they’ve worn me down mentally, made me second guess a few things…i just felt like a duck. everything is calm on the water, but my legs are moving so fast beneath the surface just to keep myself floating.

after a rough week/few weeks, it’s nice to know that i’m appreciated and that all of my hard work is paying off. some weeks it is a reward to book another bride for the following year, or help a bride find another photographer for a date that i am already booked. sometimes it is an accomplishment to just get dressed in normal clothes and have a cup of coffee by noon!!! small goals…. 🙂 but they’re goals

this evening i sat down to my computer to handle a few emails that i received. i usually filter through the ‘junk’ first. i came across this email from a name i did not recognize. i immediately thought ‘don’t toss this, it looks important’. well, i skipped over it and read everything else first. answered the important ones and flagged the rest. i finally opened it and thought it was a sales ad or something. my rough week immediately faded away. i have worked so hard for the past year and a half, especially the last 6 months…to build a successful fine art wedding photography studio. and my work is starting to pay off in ways i never thought imaginable. i was listed among the top 18 wedding photographers in huntsville alabama, out of a list of 252! 🙂 my name stands alongside 17 other wedding professionals that i NEVER thought my name would be with. i have looked up to them and even idolized a few for so long. it was like a dream reading through the article.

the moral of the story is…when life gives you lemons…make some dang lemonade people!

here is the article if you’d like to see it 🙂