Never, have I ever, worked at a job where I could say I loved the girls I worked with, until I worked at the hospital. I'll tell you what it is, it's small town folks who are honest and hard working people. Sometimes it makes me think they got trapped in a time warp where they never caught on to the crime and hatred the world today has become. Every morning I get up to drive 45 minutes to an 11(or close to it) bed hospital and a staff of three nurses and a CNA to man it. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely ups and downs to it, and of course there's ALWAYS the one person you pray is on vacation for the next week so you don't have to see their face, but all-in-all, pretty good. I thank God everyday for my job, because I know my life is so heavily impacted by the work I do and I'm grateful that I have wonderful people around me for support when I need it. It can be hard work and emotionally demanding, but we preserver through it because we stick together, well except that one person, you know ; D JUST KIDDING, haha!
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I think it all started with this intense need to nest in my home the day we brought Liam home. I certainly didn't take the advice to rest when baby is resting. It was like a madness, and nothing was ever totally done. I wore myself ragged. Between the pain of breastfeeding, the pain of birth, and my frantic need to clean, Clean, CLEAN, Liam and I did not get the bonding time we deserved. It tapered off around 3 months when I had to go back to work, though, a year later I still feel exhausted from it. It was around Liam's 4 month that we found ourselves going back to church again. During one of the services, a guest speaker mentioned creating 'margin' in your life. I thought, yeah right, let's see what else I can fit into my schedule. But what his message taught was not quite that. He reminded us that if we have every last second of the day scheduled, there was no room left for God to speak to us, and use us for His purposes. It was then that I realized, God not only had the smallest time slot in my schedule, but I was making no room for Him to come into my life. This is just my personal experience, and I hope new mothers feeling overwhelmed by the new schedule bombarding her life can try to relax a little. Try to remember having a baby is truly wonderful and beautiful. God's grace has gave you this opportunity to raise His child. Make time for Him and your happiness and love are endless! Oh, how I love photographing weddings! It's like a dream, everything is set up so beautiful, everyone looking their best! My priority in wedding photography is to make the bride feel more beautiful than ever. I want each picture to capture "I'm a happily and beautifully married woman." I like the word sophisticated as well. I think you catch my drift. This is exactly what I wanted by images to look like when I opened my wedding album. The wedding will hold a very special place in the bride's heart and even if everything didn't go perfectly that day, she will want pictures that reflect that it did. My cake never showed for our wedding but darned if I didn't smile through the whole wedding, because in the end, it's who your married to that really matters! Newborns. Surprisingly not the easiest subject for me to shoot in my opinion. I found that my niche is in children and weddings, BUT, my first gig I ever got as a photographer was newborns in the hospital, and I took what I could get. Really though, newborns can't pose themselves, they are often very hungry and irritable in the first 24 hours of life, and the creativity is somewhat limited aside from props. So, it seems, I take newborn pictures over and over, and end up with essentially the same picture. Here is the trick. New moms and dads LOVE anything and everything about their newborn, and you honestly can't go wrong. Let the image be honest (not overly retouched) and in good lighting. Yes, you may have to wait through periods of crying to catch that one good image! Be flexible, let mom breastfeed if the baby is hungry, you're not going to win that fight. Don't try to pose them in some crazy position they will not tolerate and always keep them safe and warm.
Kansas weather, brrrr! Dead of January and we are freezing our buns off! Liam is one tough little boy and just like his dad, loves the snow! There is something truly magical about the snow gently drifting down from the sky. It makes me nostalgic thinking about this time last year when Liam was a newborn and all we could do that winter was snuggle! Thinking of those memories always keeps me extra warm. My closest friend, Nicole, told me the story that when I was in labor with Liam, Gray called her and said "I think she is close, it just started snowing here." She said she started crying and was so overwhelmed with excitement. This winter, she announced to me her pregnancy and I couldn't be more happy for her! Stay warm little poppy seed, aunt Kristin loves you!
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