Saturday

7:45 am -- Phone call from a client, wondering if the weather is good enough for pictures at 9am. I convince her (and myself) that it IS because I can't afford to try and reschedule the shoot . . . I'm too booked from now until May.

8:45 am -- Leave for the shoot. It rains the whole ride over to their home. Not boding well for the natural light photographer.

9:00-11:10 -- Work with a family of four -- mom, dad, 2 girls. The girls are Payton and Taylor. I totally and completely thought I was going to shoot two BOYS. Needlesstosay, I was a little surprised to find two pretty little princesses all ready for photos when I arrived at the shoot. The shoot goes well and we do make the lighting situation work just fine.

11:20- Driving back home, Payton and Taylor's mom calls me on my cell to tell me that I left one of my lenses at her house. DUH. Turn around, drive back, get the lens because I have 3 more shoots this weekend, and I cannot afford to be without it.

11:55 -- Arrive back home. Jim and Meg are out. *Sigh* 10 minutes of peace and quiet. (Could have been more like 35 minutes of peace, but I wasted all that time going back to get that stupid lens.)

12:05 -- Jim and Meg arrive home. Meg snuggles me, then we quickly eat lunch. Meg goes down for a nap.

12:40 -- Afternoon client, scheduled for 1pm, calls to postpone the shoot by 30 minutes. We (Jim, Meg, and I) are going to a 3:30pm birthday party at which I've been asked to take pictures, so I can't really postpone. Client finds a way to make 1pm work.

1:00-3:00 -- Crazy, insane, high-stress shoot with a family of 4 young boys. Plus grandparents. Plus aunt and uncle. Plus big sister home from college. (It was a baptism for baby boy # 4.) All goes pretty well . . . except for the part where we had everyone all ready for a big group shot and my camera memory card was full . . . I panicked and had to delete a few images while everyone stood there looking at me. Nice.

3:05 -- Back home (the shoot was very close to our house). Wake Meg. Dress Meg. She says, "Cake!" the whole time because she knows we are going to a birthday party.

3:40 -- Arrive at the birthday party. Take about 250 MORE pictures of the birthday boy and his cake-eating extravaganza. I think my camera might explode from all the use, but I keep taking pictures anyway.

6:00 -- Leave the party.

6:15-7:00 -- Read, play and love on Meg, who I really haven't seen all day. Jim makes her dinner, and I sit in the office downloading and converting images. (And writing an account of my exhausting day.)

7:00 - Bedtime -- Let my camera cool, charge the battery, and repack for TWO MORE shoots tomorrow.

At least I'll make a nice chunk of change this weekend.