Where Do All The Hours Go?

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 4 Comments

I have been a really bad blogger lately.  I haven’t posted as often as I should nor as often as I’d like.  But things are just busy.  We are leaving on Friday for a fabulous trip to St. Maarten courtesy of my mother.  Sadly, her travel planning skills suck ass, but we will get there.  Her travel decisions have us flying to Chicago on Friday night–spending the night then flying from Chicago to Charlotte–an hour layover in Charlotte and then flying on to St. Maarten.  This is a woman who never flew with small children–well any children really.  We drove on all of our family vacations.  It’s a lot easier to pack everything you need when you are in a car. I don’t think she fully appreciates the hassle it is to travel with two little one and having to schlep all their crap to and from an airport.  But, I will try hard not to look a gift horse in the mouth.  She is paying. 

We are also preparing to have our bathroom gutted and redone while we are gone so I am preparing for that as well as trying to get my homework done so that I don’t have to take it on vacay.  I am busy lining up my scuba diving classes and shark dive.  Yes, I said shark dive.  I am trying to find an underwater case for my camera, because it would suck to not get photos of me diving with sharks.  I mean really. 

I hope to post more, but we leave on Thursday.  So, let me know if you are interested in guest posting here while I am gone.  I’ll need a couple bodies to keep the lights turned on for me. 

Drop me an email….dawn at thedalaimama dot net.

Sanity Is Making A Comeback

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We are starting to get some sleep.  I love sleep.  Who knew how good it could make you feel.  Drumroll please……………………………

Zoë slept through the night last night.  I know.  I can hardly believe it.  I woke up about 4 am and freaked out wondering if she had woke and I didn’t hear her–highly unlikely as the baby monitor is up pretty loud since I am the only one home.  She slept until 6:30am.  Which is awesome.  I, of course, wish she would have slept in a little more, but Noah was up at that time too, so we all got up.  I was hoping that she would final understand the value of uninterrupted sleep soon and had only woke up once the previous night. 

I know not to count my chickens before they hatch, but I am pretty confident that consistent sleeping through the night cannot be too far off.  I hope to not jinx myself by posting this momentus occasion, but I must share with you all my pure joy at a night without having to trapse upstairs. 

Victory dance may now commence. 

I Am Still Alive

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 5 Comments

Well, it’s been 2 1/2 days since hubby left for his business trip and I am happy to say that I am still alive.  While just barely.  It has been tough and I have to say to all those single mom’s out there–You are amazing and awesome and how do you manage to not go completely insane?  Do tell.

I have been busy.  I haven’t fit in a shower yet.  I know, I could be taking one now, but instead am writing this blog post.  I also could be doing homework but am writing this blog post.  I am exhausted and I can’t believe I have the rest of the week until hubby comes home.  I still just might go crazy. 

I have finished touching up all the photos from my shoots this weekend and yesterday I had the awesome pleasure of shooting a girlfriend of mine and her 4 month old little boy.  As part of her shower gift I gave her photos for the first year.  The pics turned out great. 

Going Legit

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 3 Comments

Today, I had my first series of Mini Photo Shoots for families/kids in my mom’s group.  I did 30-45 min shoots for each and they’ll all get a CD with 8-10 photos (w/reprint rights) and the option to order more photos at a nominal fee for each.  It went pretty well.  The weather held out for us and it ended up being sunny.  Which isn’t all that great as the park is pretty open and direct sunlight isn’t really the photographers friend.  I think I dealt with the sun well and it feels good to have the first set of these out of the way.  I took about 1500 photos and I am excited to look at them and see what I got and hope that they are good.  It feels good to now being a professional–i can call myself that now that I have been paid, have a website and business cards. 

Tomorrow morning at 5am my husband is leaving me to be the sole parent to our two lovely children until Friday at 11pm.  I am not looking forward to it and hope the rest of this day moves really slowly.