This week’s challenge is :Self Portrait. Wow. I hate them. But they are necessary. I’m supposed to be behind the camera you know? But how else to document my growing loc journey?
Pookah Pookah.
I know we’re not supposed to let our lives revolve around our children, but it’s so hard!
I do have other interests in life of course ( my job, my photography, the blog, twitta…)
But I find that all the things I do are somehow connected to my boy.
I continue to work in the nuthouse circus establishment where I work because it gives me more flexibility in terms of Pookah.
I started a blog. About other stuff, but mainly Pookah.
I take photos. Of Pookah. ( other things too, but lets be real here.)
I tweet. To try to talk about something other than my child! LOL
A few years ago I would have been appalled! OMG!
But now, it’s my new normal.
I love my child. I love talking about him. I love taking photos of him. I suffer 36 hours a week at night so that I can be there if he needs me in a pinch during the day.
This is my life. This is my balance. This is the way things are. For now.
And I kind of like it that way.
It’s random Tuesday folks and today’s topic: Why I hate being in charge.
And I’m in charge tonight ya’ll! Pray for me!!!
Happy Monday!
My weekend was… peaceful. It’s nice to spend time with the boys even if we had no choice….
It rained ALL weekend long.
We spent all day Saturday cuddled up on the couch watching cartoons and entertaining Pookah. He did, however, almost break my nose with a head butt! I felt and heard a crack, but it isn’t broken. It was just so PAINFUL!! I had to go to work Saturday night, but only stayed four hours. My patient delivered( 9 pounds 5 oz!) and then I went home. It was NICE. I’ll regret it come check time, but hey.
Random photo of playtime….
Sunday was another lazy day of football, games with Pookah and not cooking. We had Popeye’s chicken. Even though Pookah LOVES Popeye’s, I usually just peel off the skin( the wheat allergy) and give him the meat. Somehow, he got into a piece of skin and the results was a rash around his mouth. But it appeared about an hour later. Hmmmmmm. It used to be that no matter how little the amount of wheat was, it showed up immediately. AND the rash/hives was all over his body. This reminds me of when he was a baby and I had just started noticing the allergy. Maybe it IS getting better? Who knows. I’m still going to keep on like we have. In fact, I’m going to stop half assing it and just completely convert the house over to wheat/gluten free. Right now it’s about 75% free. This is going to be hard….
In blog land, doing a 365 AND a 52 week project AND maintaining two blogs is getting to be a bit much around here. Soooo. I think I’m going to slim down. I’m going to keep the two blogs for now,but stop posting as much over there. The 365 is a daily picture, but I can wait and write a post with all of the photos from the week in one or two posts. That will help a LOT. 
. And I’m bringing one of the features “The Newbie Chronicles: A Newbie with a camera” over here. It will be a weekly or monthly feature about what I’ve learned about photography. Hopefully, it will help someone out who wants a little advice etc. You might also see a few photography challenges over here. Some weeks, this blog may look like a photography blog and some weeks, it may look normal. But hey, that’s My Life!
On the weight loss front: there is no weight loss. LOL. Still the same. BUT! I’ve finally gotten over my cold, I actually went to the gym on Friday AND completed day one of couch to 5K! And I plan on going today before work! I’ve got a plan and I’m sticking to it! I’ve weighed myself and we’ll see how it goes.
That’s all over here. Hope you guys had a fabulous weekend. What did you do?
Did you know that I have two blogs? This one, and another one devoted completely to photography? I just started it late last year, but for someone who has decided to limit her online/blogging/social media time, this is becoming a bit much…..
This week’s theme of Project 52 was I Dreamed a Dream.
For years, I dreamed a dream of motherhood. It seemed an easy dream to realize. After all, I saw the miracle of motherhood everyday working as a Labor and Delivery nurse. And then, it took me a year to get pregnant. And then, when I finally conceived, I had a miscarriage. I thought my dream was over. But out of the blue, I was pregnant again. And this one stuck. And on November 26, 2009, my dream was realized. I got my Pookah bear.
Sooo.
Pookah is still very much allergic to wheat.
Skin test positive.
Big Big Sigh.
At first, I felt sorry for myself.
I could feel myself crashing with this overwhelming disappointment that my child wasn’t “perfect”. That something was wrong with him. That I couldn’t fix. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes as I watched the test turn positive on his back.
But then, I was distracted by Pookah.
He was playing. Zooming around the room with a toy truck that he had found.
He was happy.
He was healthy.
He was the most beautiful thing in the world.
And he didn’t care that he was allergic to wheat.
His most pressing concern at that moment was
“Mommy Play!”
I felt my spirits lifting.
Who was this really about?
Me or my perfect imperfect child?
My child is imperfect and he is perfect all at the same time.
And I love him.
And that is all that matters.
My Perfect Boy..
We went to the Children’s Museum here in Atlanta on Saturday morning. I even got C-Dub to go. It was sooo cold and blustery outside, but after being sick and cooped up in the house so long, I really wanted to get out of the house.
Pookah had LOADS of fun. And of course didn’t want to leave. He busted his lip of course while running away from C-Dub trying not to leave. The not so perfect ending to a perfect morning. SMH. I got a few photos that I liked. Here they are.
Discovery…
He Paints!
Masterpiece!
Happy Tuesday everyone! Did you guys have a long weekend? I did, but not by choice.
The cold monster still had me by the horns so I have had 6 days off. WOW. If I wasn’t sick, it would have been like a vacation.
Anyhoo.
Life has been moving along. I had an awesome week last week!
First, my post: Is Social Media Taking Over was featured over at BlogHer. THAT was exciting.
THEN, I got a raise at work. That was REALLY exciting because it was more than I expected.
AND THEN! On Saturday, I got the news that my photo pure joy had been selected as third place in the I Heart Faces Best Faces of 2011 contest!!! To say I was surprised, humbled, grateful and excited was an understatement! Be sure to check it out!
It was a damn good week!
(Insert random photo of Pookah here…..)
Now lets’ hope this week continues to be good. Pookah has his appointment today to check on his wheat allergy. After his diagnosis last year we were told to completely eliminate wheat from his diet. It’s been a few issues here and there, but we have. I’m anxious for him to be retested because his doctor did point out that most kids grow out of this kind of allergy. I’m praying really really hard and ask everyone else to do so too. It has really taken me about a year to convert my household to a gluten/wheat free one. It’s hard to say the least, but thankfully the stores are full of gluten free stuff due to a new awareness of celiac disease and a host of gluten free diet fads. But whatever! I really just want to be able to not worry that he’ll get into something and I’ll have to pull out my epi pen. I don’t want that experience EVER again. SO keep your fingers crossed today guys!
Well that’s all for me! How was your long weekend?
P.S. By the way, I’m linking up the shot above for Sweet Shot Tuesday over on my photography blog My Life’s Photos. I’m addicted to photo challenges!
Happy MLK Day!
Everyone always sings the Stevie Wonder song, but if you are around my age ( thirty ummm something), you remember this one. I heard it on the radio on Friday and was jamming! Yes, I dug it up! Enjoy.
