Kim Weiss Photography – The Blog

My oldest daughter turned 14 this week.  Which is really very hard for me to believe!  I promise you, it was yesterday that Bill & I were brand new parents fumbling around with our little infant who loved to fall asleep in the swing (and as a brand new parent who said I’d *never* let my baby sleep in a swing, it was a bit worrisome… and now we can totall laugh at ourselves for stressing over such little things).

We took her and her classmates to dinner on Friday night to Shogun.  It was a HUGE hit!  Even for the kids who weren’t too terribly adventurous with foods still said it was the BEST dinner ever.  And we ended by totally embarrassing Abby with them singing the happy song in Japanese.  I totally ran out the door with my camera too!

The girls then came back here for a sleepover, complete with photo sessions… and at least a zillion wardrobe changes.  I’m thinking I really need to market my portrait parties more for teen/tween girls parties… they could have gone on all night (and almost did!!).

I was supposed to be bogged down all weekend with more design work, but the materials weren’t ready, so I was able to actually get a nap in on Saturday, which was SO SO nice after slumber party lack of sleep.

My oldest boy, Billy, now that he is in 5th grade, can go to our school’s mixers.  Abigail (8th grade) was okay with it, as long as he promised not to bug or embarrass her… and then he made her promise the same thing to him.  He was excited… and that’s an understatement.  He showered, picked out some “cool” clothes, had me help fix his hair, and even sprayed on a bit of cologne.  I somehow talked him into letting me snap a few photos.  I also realized these may be the last with his braces on, as he gets them off on Wednesday.  I thought he looked crazy handsome!

but just a rather typical day it seems with 7 kids.

Today was Thomas’ special day at preschool… which simply means he gets to bring an adult with him for the day, he’s the leader, brings snack, and gets to set the snack table.  After we dropped the bigger kids off, we ran to Bread Co. to pick up a few sliced bagels, his favorite snack he wanted to share, got some juice and grapes from Dierberg’s and headed to his big day.  It was so much fun seeing him interact with his little friends!  He just adores school and that makes me so happy!  I completely walked off without my camera too.  Boo!

We headed home for lunch with Daddy who had stayed home with Sophie.  I got to work a bit on some assignments I have with a fast approaching deadline.

After we picked up the big kids from school, it was a mad dash home to get them all a quick snack and change for soccer practice and a volleyball game.  (and by the way, we saw a slew of police cars flying by as we headed home, and my boys were thinking they were going to a bank robbery… and we have since found out, indeed there was a hold-up at the Commerce Bank in Fenton).  First to soccer practice, drop off two boys… then off to Abby’s volleyball game in Affton.  But I couldn’t really stay at the game, since I needed to get the boys picked up by 6 and her game wouldn’t end until 6:30… so back to Fenton we went.  And then they didn’t get released until 6:15… so I feeling super guilty that Abby (and her coaches) had to wait on me to get back to retrieve her.

It doesn’t seem like so much typing it, but I assure you, it felt like a mad dash the whole afternoon… so I was not in the mood for going home to cook (but that’s not so unusual really).  We met up with Daddy at the kids’ most favorite place to eat… Cici’s Pizza.  Oh, how I loathe that place, but it was cheap, quick, and I was assured everyone would be happy and no complaining.

Then the typical home to bathe everyone, get homework done, and everyone settled into bed.  Whew!  Picking up the house will just have to wait for tomorrow.  I’ve got some work to do while the house is nice and quiet!

anyone thinks my kids are easy subjects to photograph:

I think that’s why I have so much patience for my clients’ children… because no child has ever been more difficult than any of my seven children!  So I never want my clients to apologize or get upset if they think their child is being less than cooperative.  This is why I decided to start this business, really.  Because I know as a parent how difficult getting photographs can be and I wanted a more personalized and relaxed option.  And I love my job!  Because after all the tricks and acting silly to get their attention, if I just get one of these, it’s all worth it!