I’m home from a great vacation and sadly, now forced to get back to the daily grind.  It’s bad enough to have to come home to reality, it’s even worse when reality is 45 degrees.  ACK.  Florida was nice and warm, so getting on the plane in 80 degrees vs. getting off to a chilly 45 wasn’t all that fantastic.  On top of which, some of the kids didn’t listen to me when i suggested they go with jeans on the day we left, and opted for shorts.  LOL.  They were a lot colder than I was.  Lesson here; listen to your mother.  Not that anyone is really going to retain that lesson the next time the chance to use it comes up.

I have hundred of photos to sort through and edit.  Really.  Hundreds.  I think after cleaning out obvious bad shots, I’m still at a count of over 400 photos.  I had rented a wide angle lens to take with us.  Denny enjoyed it and took it upon himself to take several shots of me walking with the kids from BEHIND.  Lesson to everyone… don’t let  anyone take a photo of you with a wide angle lens, especially from behind.  Enough said about that.  Clearly those are photos that won’t make it past the digital darkroom.

Card registration for November is over and Andrea and I are hard at work getting those ready to ship.  On top of that, I’ve been working on getting things ready for the new cards website.  Hopefully I can get that wrapped up by the end of the month.  Not sure I’ll get there, but it’s nice to have goals. 

Tonight we have parent/teacher conferences for Dylan and Ethan.  We’ve never had an issue at conferences really, but this year has been a little harder than most.  I’m crossing my fingers that it’s going to go well tonight, but I’m not 100% convinced.  Hopefully this doesn’t become a trend.  I don’t like dreading conferences.

I’m off to do my regular daily chores… ugh, reality stinks.

~j