I get to shoot all day tomorrow!  Yeah!!!  We’re headed up to Springfield, IL for a wedding.  Can you believe that my brain has been so programed for school, kids, IEPs, and this wedding…that I forgot about my dog? Let me repeat. I forgot about my dog.  Yes.  What a terrible doggie mother I am!  Lucky me, we’re headed to Springfield, Illinois.  The home of Shawn’s Dad.  He said Scarlett can stay at his house for the day.  Thank gosh.  This brings up a funny question that I was asked this week.  Actually, I get asked it every once in awhile.  “What do you like better, teaching or photography?”  Answer: I love both.  No lie.  There are so many nights where I can’t fall asleep at night because I’m thinking of what I can do to help this one understand time to the quarter hour… or that one understand the long e sound.  It’s true.  There are also times when I’m totally engaged in my computer with photography.  “Times” doesn’t really even begin to describe it.  I spend hours on photography forums studying how I can get better.  So when I get asked that question, I always end the conversation with, I like both and I do both because it’s who I am.  I’m both.

I can do both. I then start thinking that I might not be able to do both for my whole life.  I can now, because you can throw a small dog in the back of your car and put her in a cage when you need to.  When I have a kid, life just isn’t that simple.  When I do something, I completely do it. I completely do it the right way.  The first time.  So where has my mind been?  It’s been doing what I love.