I’ve never been in this position before, and it’s a completely new ballgame for me that I’m still trying to figure out. Some days I enjoy being able to do what I want, go where I want to go, and just be. But then again, I always did that when I had AJ to begin with...

So, how do you fill that void when your child isn’t with you?

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I feel like weird family traditions are a dying thing, and I’m not sure why. It could be because our life is always so busy that we either: A. forget about them or B. never make time to do them when we say we will.

For us, it’s B.

This year, I wanted to make that change, especially since I knew we were moving right after the beginning of the year.

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I’m not typically a sucker for holidays, but I do love something about this Cupid day. Maybe it’s because I’m a wedding photographer and I adore a good love story, or maybe it’s because I tend to never get to celebrate it. I’m not quite sure, but I’m leaning towards the first option.

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I’m not a very good homebody. Not at all.

I take full advantage of my sagittarius self, and I have a need to always be moving, always finding a new adventure. Which is probably why I feel a need to travel so much. But, with a recent cross country move that is taking up much of my time settling, the traveling will have to wait a little bit.

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I know exactly what I want out of life. I want a career, I want a family, and I want to be happy. But the balance with wanting everything always seems to be the difficult part. Sometimes, you just end up settling to keep an easy flow. I know I always have, and though it seemed like it was the best option at the time, later down the road it feels like it just held me back.

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It’s the first day, the day after you drop your child off to someone else; their dad, their grandma, their aunt, whomever. That day you wake up with no little hands in your face, no morning calls of “mommy, mommy, mommy,” and no cartoons on the T.V. The quietness is kind of calm, relaxing, and a bit eerie. And the question hits you,

“Am I a bad mom for this?”

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Is there ever a way to get your child to not fight you with going potty? A handbook somewhere with all the tricks and secrets? I thought potty training was going to be this easy thing because AJ showed interest in it super early on, but it’s been a nightmare.

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I feel like the past decade has been a constant state of moving. Which, honestly, doesn’t bother me one bit. Or it used to not I should say. This year was a bit different, not the excitement to be someone new, and warm, again, but the process wasn’t thrilling like it normally was.

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When I finally decided to dive in an start my own blog, it was after midnight and I may have still been drinking my second cup of coffee that I thought I could sneak in before my son woke up. After re-heating it more times than I can count, I gave up and was enjoying my cup of happiness cold.

That’s when it hit me. - I can’t be the only one that lives like this, can I? There has to be more people out there that are just your average, ordinary, everyday, wanderlusting, coffee addicted mama-photogs.

So, the idea behind The Caffeinated Photographer began…

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