Yay!  I have been so stressed about going back to work, and then not going back to work.  I have been paralyzed not knowing how to catch up on all the school work, and helping Chris have time to catch up, and the kids have seemed wonderful and exhausting to take care of.  I just quit my little $7 an hour student job, and my eyes are just filling up with tears from the relief of it all.  I didn't want to quit.  I love photos.  But there are things about the production of a weekly magazine/newspaper that I hated!  Poor Chris has been the rock at home with the kids.  I have been running around like a mad woman since May, doing crazy shoots here and there, last minute crap, sports, and some pretty cool events too... all the while neglecting my kids, my husband and my homework!  Once Chris got sick and I had to actually be a MOM again, it was like a wake-up call.  Now I know what my kids have eaten, when they have bathed last...   The house is back to it's former glory as major disaster area!  (I guess the stress cleaning while Chris was sick couldn't last long...  my little apartment was awesomely clean and organized and sanitized!   and I did have a lot of help making it that way - thanks Paige and Meghan, and keeping it that way, thanks Shirlee!)  The dishes are piled up, and the laundry is towering over us, and I'm here with my family in the middle of it  :)  And it's great.
What a relief!


Now...


About that homework....



and laundry....


and dishes....




oh!  and ps.   I went running!  and I went swimming (never mind that was during my new jogging and swimming classes)  but I actually am going to get to exercise again!  I seriously, no joke, have not done a thing for my body since like June...   and I've gotten all soft and soggy, squishy...   I'm stoked to get to get back into shape a little bit.  :)   if it doesn't kill me first!  I am sore like an 80 year-old lady today!  wish me luck  ;)