Hi there!!! I know I know...I was doing so well on updating this site, right?! Look, I know I'm not great with promises or updates but you gotta understand - I'm like trying to run three businesses {YES, THREE! Yes, I'm crazy} be a somewhat decent parent, a somewhat decent wife and pretend to be put together enough to read and eventually keep up with this blog...so, please. you gotta cut me some slack, ok?

Anyway - enough about that...I wanted to say HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the dads and single parents out there doing the best job that they can raising their kiddos. Parenting is hard, so give yourself a pat on the back for surviving another year and here is to another year to enjoying the adventures that lay ahead.

And a special thank you and Happy Father's day to this dude!

I'm still here guys..I've been thinking lots and lots about you all and the blogging world. Many changes are coming into play and happening as we speak. A new, updated site with more content will be in place soon!

In the mean time..here are some photos from our trip to Mendocino. We stayed at an Airbnb called the Zendo..it was magical.

Hi all!! - anyone still here?

Sorry I have been MIA but you can find me more regularly on my photography blog.

I am still getting the hang of being home with my kiddos and trying to run a full fledged photography business.

So if you are curious as to what I have been up to, at least photography wise, then come on over here and take a look.

If you are in the SF Bay area and are interested in a photography session or want to chat about photography, then please drop me a line here.

In the meantime here is a little bit of Jax:

Because my photography business has been overtaking my life recently (in a good way), my house has been overrun with dishes to be put away, laundry to be folded, junk mail to be sorted through amongst the other more important things like playing with my kids in our backyard, while enjoying this gorgeous weather and spending more quality alone time with the hubs.

So, yesterday, after picked up the kids (and played with them a bit outside before heading home), I quickly made homemade mac n cheese (yes, quickly..I make ahead a lot of pasta - just plain - to easily throw something together when I get home) fed the kiddos and then started to clean the kitchen. I didn't finish till about 9 pm or so, but boy did I feel good about it.

Did I finish the other items on my to do list? Of course not. Did I get to spend some time with my kiddos - yep, sure did. Is my house less of a disaster than a few days ago? Just a little bit. Because everyday, it starts all over again - at least this is how it feels. One minute it's visitor worthy, the next minute I'm stressing out about it again. So, I decided to try a little thing I read somewhere - I can't remember if it was from a blog or from Real Simple (I think it was from a Real Simple reader who wrote in actually).

I wrote all the chores that need to happen so that this house is nice and comfortable and presentable. I made sure to leave a space in between the chores so I can cut them up into strips, fold them up and plop em into a jar. Each day I pick one of those little pieces of paper and do that chore and that chore only. Having done the kitchen already and picked up the rest of the rooms before I started to do this, helped me start off on an even playing field.

Yesterday was the first day, and today I still continued to do it. So hopefully, I'll be able to keep it up.

Oh and here are some pictures

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