busy is good…

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-17T13:35:40-05:00October 17th, 2010|Austin Photographer, Client Work, My Family|

I was unloading the van after my session this morning and I realized how telling this scene was. I live in my van this time of year. I do a lot of driving no matter where I am shooting because we live so far out. I don’t mind it much, time in the car alone is just that, alone time. When you’re the mother of 3 you’ll take it wherever you can get it: a minute alone in the bathroom, even walking down the hallway alone or any time in the car when sesame street isn’t blaring from the backseat and children are begging for a snack. Anyway, busy season….it means […]

Today.

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-15T11:43:03-05:00October 15th, 2010|My Family|

Today is “Teagan is asthma free day”

And I want to shout it from the roof tops.

And dance.

And cry tears of joy.

And celebrate.

We kicked asthma’s ass.

All the way to the curb.

We sent something life threatening out of our house, away from our child.

He can breath.

All the time. Not just sometimes.

He’s stronger.

His future is brighter.

His parents worry less.

No more panic.

No more coughing fits in the middle of the night.

No more steamy showers to open his airways.

No more avoiding triggers.

And we no longer deal with breathing treatments.

Or co-pays.

Or the ER, urgent care, countless doctor visits.

We will soon run errands without a rescue inhaler.

We will unplug the nebulizer and remove it from our living room.

And just now, I trashed the crap we’ve had to […]

10 on Tuesday

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-11T23:10:11-05:00October 11th, 2010|My Family|

1. I woke up to a rude awakening of toddlers yelling directly into the monitor over who called who stupid at 5:03 am. Maybe room sharing was a total dream…..sigh. For the record, it was the duder. We’re working on ridding his vocabulary of the word “doo-pid” and it makes me crazy. I don’t like that word at all. It went something like this:

Taryn: MAAAAAWWWWM! Teagan called me stupid!!
Teagan: No I didn’t!
Taryn: Yes you did Teagan!
Teagan: No I didn’t! Doo-Pid.

5:03 am. Sigh.

2. I made homemade, from scratch, banana bread on Monday with the kids only to leave it in the oven too long and burn it. It smelled soooooo good. And it was in the shape of little pumpkins. […]