She’s a creative

2019-11-21T12:48:47-06:00January 5th, 2018|Craft Projects, My Family, Taryn|

She writes fiction novels (her current book has 22 chapters and counting), she draws, paints, crochets, sews. She’s always creating something. I worried that downsizing our stock of creative supplies would be hard for her but she’s risen to the challenge. Today she made a bow and arrow. A few days ago she made Jonah a fishing pole. Give that girl some string and some nature and she’s good to go.

My Million Dollar Idea

2012-01-02T06:36:10-06:00January 2nd, 2012|My Family|

It was at dinner one night, must have been several years ago now, that this idea hit me.  Taryn has issues sitting in her chair at dinner.  It was going on looooong before we realized it’s related to her sensory issues.  But every time we sit at the table, without fail, we are reminding her to sit in her chair correctly.  She perches on the edge, sits with her knees and feet up, or just doesn’t plant her butt in the chair at all.  It drives us pretty crazy.  Anyway, so one night, long ago, I told her I was going to buy her some suction cup pants.  She gave me one of her crazy eyed funny looks and laughed.  […]

kindergarten graduation!

2011-06-01T12:13:19-05:00June 1st, 2011|My Family|

I have so many things to come blog about, updates on all of us, my and Taryn’s girls trip to New Orleans…just tons of updating.  But I know if I don’t post this right now it will get lost in the shuffle.

Our sweet girl graduated from kindergarten this morning.  It was so very bittersweet.  She had a really rough start to her year.  School started during some very dark times for our family as it was just a few months after Teagan’s vaccine reaction.  We were in the midst of dealing with Taryn’s sensory issues and none of us could have anticipated just how hard the changes that school brought would be.  That rough start makes me even more proud […]

10

2011-01-11T23:06:30-06:00January 11th, 2011|Uncategorized|

1.  Hey Photogs, is anyone going to Imaging USA?  I will be at the expo on Monday and I’d love to meet up and say hi!  I’m super excited about the fact that I might finally get to meet THE Erin Cobb!  I’ve been hoping for our paths to cross for years!

2.  I am thinking about opening up a few mini sessions on January 29th or February 5th – just in time for Valentines Day.  Any takers?  Email me at lstradtner@mac.com for details!

3.  I feel like I owe a bit of an explanation about my poor fell asleep on the kitchen counter hubby.  He really was asleep like that and I was shocked to find him that way.  I […]

10 to catch up…

2011-01-07T21:49:29-06:00January 7th, 2011|My Family|

1.  Finally attempting to crawl out from under a rock and rejoin the land of blogging and working again.  I realized today I hadn’t posted a single thing in weeks about what has been going on with me and mine.  Our Christmas was a good one.  We succeeded in keeping things simple this year.  We enjoyed hosting Jason’s parents, grandparents and brother for Christmas.  I gave myself the gift of getting out of cooking by ordering dinner for 10 from Whole Foods.  We may have played a funny, but dirty, little trick on our family relating to the food.  We got them good!  HA!  I think it ended up being cheaper than it would have been to buy all […]

10 on Tuesday and 2 mini session openings!

2010-11-30T21:41:31-06:00November 30th, 2010|Austin Photographer, Elf on a Shelf, My Family|

1.  I am thinking about opening up 2 last minute mini session spots for this coming weekend with guaranteed Christmas delivery.  Any interest?  Email me at lstradtner@mac.com for details!

2.  My kids are so addicted to these right now.  Especially Teagan.  Obsessed.

3.  This morning I stopped at my desk to pick something up and noticed there was still solid ice in my favorite cup that had been sitting from the night before.  First, I thought to myself, wow, this cup really IS awesome.  Second, I thought to myself, I wonder what time I actually went to bed….  Third, I thought to myself, I wonder if Ty did this to be sweet, he IS always bring me water refills.  Turns out […]

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