For the first time in a long time I am carrying around stress.  Not to worry.  It's not really bad stress, more like deadline stress.  I don't find motherhood particularly stressful.  Trying and exhausting at times, yes.  But this work type of stress hasn't been around in a long while.

See, for the first time in five years I have actually contributed monetarily to our household, and I forgot how great that feels.  Ever since I was around 14 I have been making some kind of money for myself.  Well, this week was a pretty big moment for me;  I opened a business account at the bank.  A business account.  Now, I don't know if I will make enough to truly merit a business checking, but it is there , and it seems to create this need to achieve. 

The recent school portraits are the force behind this new development, with some people writing checks to my business name.  I have to say, I hope this works out for me, because making pictures is definitely my calling.  It is the thing I feel compelled to do.  Not a moment goes by during the day when I am not thinking about a photo.  My art prints are what make me really happy and it is nice to have another field that can help out.

Anyway, I just want to say thank you.  Thank you for being the force that brought me back around to my passion.  A passion about which I had almost forgotten.  If it hadn't been for this terrifically inspiring internet world, you, I don't know if I would have ever come back around.