08/18/2026
I’d be lying if I said this month hasn’t been a doozy. 😂
August has been nonstop. If I’m not out shooting, I’m sitting behind my computer editing. Add in back to school shopping, supply lists, open houses, appointments, and fall sports officially starting - which means practices or games six days a week - and I am officially running on fumes. 😂
But if I’m being completely transparent, the hardest part hasn’t even been how tired I am.
It’s the mom guilt.
My kids go back to school TOMORROW, and I can’t help but look back at this last month and wonder if I worked too much. If I should’ve closed the laptop more. If we should’ve squeezed in one more day date, one more movie night, one more completely ordinary summer day where I wasn’t thinking about the next gallery I needed to finish..
I know I was still here. I know we’ve made some amazing memories as a family. We’ve done plenty of one on one dates, a vacation, a trip up north, movie nights, needoh hunting (iykyk), s’mores nights, pool days, sleepovers.. all of the things. But motherhood has a funny way of making you question whether you gave enough even when you feel like you gave everything you had.
And this month, I’ve definitely felt pulled in a million different directions.
I’m incredibly grateful for this business. A long editing list means families continue to trust me with some of the most important moments of their lives. A packed calendar means you continue to choose me in a field filled with so many talented photographers. I will never take that for granted.
But I’m also a mom first. And with summer ending tomorrow, that part of me is feeling it a little extra today. 😭
So, I also want to say thank you to everyone who has been patient with me. My editing list is longer than I’d like it to be right now, but I’m working through it every single day. Galleries are going out daily.
This season of life is just… BUSY. A business I love. Three kids I want to soak up every second with. Sports schedules. School schedules. Clients I care deeply about. A house, husband and family that still need me when the computer closes.
And somehow trying to give 100% to all of it at the same time.
Tomorrow they walk back into school, and I’ll probably sit in the quiet house wondering how summer went by so freaking fast. 🥺
So today, after sessions this morning - the laptop is closing a little earlier and we’re going to enjoy a few hours in the pool before sports!
The galleries will still be there tomorrow.
But this last day of summer with my babies won’t. 🫶🏻
If your kiddos are starting school tomorrow, I hope they have the BEST first day! 🏫