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Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad! | Monday Musings

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Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad! | Monday Musings

Since I'm posting this on a Monday, yesterday was my parents' real anniversary...but today I'm celebrating on the blog :) My parents were married 33 years ago on a cold day in New York. Over three decades later there are four adults and four grandchildren now living their lives because of it. Their wedding day was the start of a marriage that has brought them through years of ups and downs and weathered the storm in a beautiful way.

The closest you will ever get to seeing a marriage besides your own is probably in your parents. Through the years spent at home, and now living a little ways away, I have learned countless lessons from watching mom and dad love each other. By way of the marriage vows I shared with Nathan, and those that my parents spoke so many years ago, here are just a few things I know because of watching them together...

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I Refuse to be Busy | Monday Musings

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I Refuse to be Busy | Monday Musings

I planned out this post awhile ago, but it's ironic that I'm writing it now. Truth be told, this is the busiest season I think I've been in since I started my business. It's wedding season galore in Virginia, engagement session season (that happened quickly!) and I have some other projects I'm working on as well for C&F Enterprises and a few other people. Additionally, a lot of my weddings and engagement sessions have been out of town so with travel I feel like I'm in a nonstop whirlwind of activity!

As ironic as it is, this post is also perfectly timed. Because I blog so much and share about my life, most of my friends immediately assume that my answer to "How are you doing?" is going to be "Busy!" And while this may be the truth right now, that is not how I will choose to answer their question. In fact, I am going to argue that this will never be my answer...

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Optimizing My Life for Freedom | Monday Musings

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Optimizing My Life for Freedom | Monday Musings

It's no secret that I am a podcast junkie. One of my daily habits is taking Lilo on a walk while listening to business podcasts. These have pushed me forward both in photography, with my SEO training, and personally as I learn from outside the wedding world - and even the creative industry - on how other people run effective businesses.

Running a small business means making a lot of decisions. From daily deciding what I'm going to tackle to long-term planning and marketing, sometimes I feel inundated with a barrage of could-should-would and I am often paralyzed, not knowing how to respond. I am usually quick to move past the initial feeling of overwhelm, but recently some bigger decisions have come up that required me to do a lot more deep thinking - and I was honestly stuck when it came to knowing what I should do...

Books are my love language, especially fun ones that carry me away with a good story 📖 Lately, they have also been an important place of learning for me. Some recent favorites: 📚 For Fun: #WheretheCrawdadsSing (@authordeliaowens) 📚 For Business: #
In a turn of events that is surprising to exactly no one (myself included, by this point), we have a new house guest this summer! 🏠 At the last minute, a 15-year-old exchange student needed a place to stay, and it just so happened that we have an ex
This is how I've felt during quarantine. Whether it's waking up, or running, or reading, or working when work seemed to slow down for awhile, my mantra was: just. keep. moving. I guess I was in good company when that idea kept me going 😉 . . . #quot
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