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12/365: Placecards Gone Wild

12/365: Placecards Gone Wild
Originally uploaded by amiefletch

As I said in the previous photos, these were the placecards yesterday for Thanksgiving. We each brought our ducks home - we had three and Olivia snagged them all. Today they were making a getaway in the Barbie car!

Thanksgiving Placecard Ducks

Thanksgiving Placecard Ducks
Originally uploaded by amiefletch

These were the placecards on the Thanksgiving table yesterday at Mom and Dad's house. My mom wrote our names on them - I hijacked these for a photo. We all got to bring ours home...

I'm running a little bit behind...Halloween Photos

I am swamped. Completely, totally, freakishly swamped. Whose idea was it to take all these photography sessions anyway?

I can't complain. It's been so much fun. I think it's been the answer to a lot of creative angst for me over the years. So the obsession is totally my own fault. In the meantime, I go through spells of just not wanting to pick up the camera in-between sessions. But I did manage to get some on Halloween of Fairy Olivia.

Look, she asked originally - repeatedly - to be Tinkerbell. But then Halloween night came and although she was in a Tinkerbell costume and I did her hair in a bun (because all the other moms kept saying, "You're going to put her hair in a bun like Tinkerbell, right?") even though I didn't even remember the whole Tinkerbell-had-a-bun thing....well, she just wanted to be a fairy - not so much Tinkerbell.

And so, I present to you....fairy (who looks an awful lot like Tinkerbell) Olivia...

Look at her back hand on the last one - she's really got this cute little gracefulness about her (that I totally don't have!). I think those classes -  tumbling (over for now) and the current dance class might be paying off!

I'll put prints in the mail to family soon - but you know, expect them on or around Thanksgiving! :)

Quoted on monster.com about Working Moms

As founder of "Work It" - the working moms blog I run - I am occasionally contacted by a reporter for a quote on a topic related to working moms. I do feel strongly about how important a flexible workplace is for all workers - and particularly working moms.

I am quoted in an article on monster.com called "Technology for the Working Mom"  - and the reporter even used me as her lead. It's a side-blessing of the blog that I get to be an advocate for a flexible workplace and for the positives of working at home. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to work at home two days a week - it gives me the flexibility to get my job done with less stress, less time wasted on the commute and more time spent with Olivia.