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Hi all. Yep, it’s me. A very tired me. Wow, I don’t know what’s with this pregnancy, but it seems like every trimester gets more and more wearying. Yes, I’m quite sick of telling everyone who asks how I am that I’m “Tired.” But I really don’t have anything to complain about and my being able to take multiple naps throughout the day and still crash at 9 p.m. is the biggest thing going on with me right now, so that’s what I answer. Although, I wonder if what’s going on in this pic (it’s a crappy cell phone shot- it only deserves to be called a “pic”) has anything to do with my exhaustion.

I feel like, compared to other women who pregnant approximately as much as I am, I’m carrying super high. Supposedly that means we’re having a girl (no, we haven’t found out). I have no idea about that. All I know is that there’s a little noggin lodged in my ribs. And it’s making things like, say, breathing, a little more difficult. Especially when you add in any kind of physical exertion. Huff, puff. And when you add in pelvic pain, round ligament pain, big, clompin’ boots and twoish feet of snow, you get a pregnant momma who stays inside and looks out wistfully at sparkling snow, wishing she didn’t feel so tired at the thought of putting on her outside gear and take pictures. Yeah, she, I mean, I should just go and do it, weariness notwithstanding.

This is as close to doing it as I ever get- stepping out on the back stoop with my phone. Yes, I could just about cry with all the wonderful winter shots I’m missing out on. I feel like photography is somehow not important enough to conquer my lack of energy for. I know I shouldn’t have ended that sentence with “for”, so shoot me. But *yawn* I’m so tired. I can’t say it enough. And with a 2-year-old working on 2-year-old molars and being extremely clingy, well, I’ll just stay inside for now. But come springtime? I’m breakin’ out! Uhuh. I say that now. Then I’ll have a 2-year-old AND a newborn and will probably be even more sleep-deprived. But I hope, I so hope. I usually love winter, but I’m definitely getting cabin/spring fever this year. Booooo. I liked having winter as my favorite season!

Not much of anything to post in the actual photography department. I did a family picture for our pastor’s family, but it was just that-  a let’s-get-just-one-good-shot session. Nothing too exciting to show off. And over the next three Sundays, I’ll be doing photo sessions for the church’s photo directory, but I really don’t think you want to see that. Trust me- it’s a dark backdrop, a folding chair or two, maybe a couple of bar stools, a few lights, and that’s it. Nothing at all fancy, but it’ll work fine for the directory. I guess. I’ve always gone to churches where they got Olan Mills or some other studio to come in and do it all fancy like, so I think I have a slightly different standard for photo directory photos than most of the church people do. They don’t care if I just do the line-’em-up-and-shoot-’em thing. But if I do a half decent job, maybe it’ll get my name out there a little more. Word of mouth is the best source of advertising and I’ll get in on that, no matter how menial the job. Besides, this job doesn’t involve tramping around in the snow, so yeah, sounds like I can manage.

I *may* have a job or two lined up for this spring, but you’ll just have to wait and see. Right now, I’m going to go wash diapers and take a nap. Night, night.