I was sitting here this morning trying to decide what to write, what to share with all of you today & it made me think…. Why do I do this? Why do I blog? And as the question formed in my mind I realized what a valid question it is. I spend a great deal of time deciding what to write and then trying to articulate it well. It can be much more time consuming than one would guess. So if I am investing all this time into it – I really ought to know why I do it.

In truth I started my blog when I first opened my business doors back in 2008. (Wow! That feels like ages ago!) I had blogged a lot in high school and a little college – more as an online diary for myself and some of my friends could read it too. So blogging for my business seemed like a logically step. To talk about my business and what I was doing, but most importantly to share about my amazing clients and show them off in my portrait art. And really that right there is the core reason behind why I blog!

I blog because I am constantly blessed with such amazing clients and it would feel selfish and wrong not to celebrate their awesome with the world! (Or at least the little corner of it that visits my blog.) And not just that, but I love that it provides me with the opportunity to reiterate to my clients how awesome they are! With the world moving as fast as it does, with rushing off to work or school or driving the kids to their extra curriculars, or getting to a business meeting on time or working on your home – it’s easy to be so caught up in the rush that we forget to slow down and really appreciate who we are and what we have.

I know that I am often guilty of this too. Sometimes I’m so busy with work that I forget to really be present in the moments with my husband because I’m so busy thinking about what I need to get done and how to fit everything into my schedule. It’s something we all do I think. We forget to take a breath and breathe and look into our spouse’s eyes and see the very soul and heart of the one we fell in love with. We forget to appreciate the snotty noses, and grass stained pants, and the dirty-tracked floors. And before we know it another week, month, year, decade has slipped by and we failed to take the time to really live it, to enjoy the moments in between.

And that’s what I try to do here. I try to share those little glimpses into each of you, your families, your teens, relationship as husband and wife. I try to slow things down, if only for a little bit. And in that time freeze those moments – the ones we are so often too rushed to linger on – freeze them in portraits that you can hang onto. That you can look at and remember all you have and all you are and be reminded of how utterly blessed and awesome your life is.

That’s what this blog is about. That’s why I do this. To share. To celebrate the awesome. And to provide reminders of those simple, everyday moments.

Hope you all are having a magnificent Monday! See you on Wednesday!

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