So I think my Canon Rebel DSLR is on its last legs. I wanted to take an adorable picture last night of the three girls snuggling in bed together, but no matter what I did (or how many cards or batteries I tried), it refused to turn on and take a picture. It’s been in heavy use for almost 8 years, and I think I’m ready to upgrade from the XTi anyway, but the timing is so stinky, with the whole draining-our-life-savings-to-buy-a-condo-with-no-yard thing we’re doing next month. My cell phone camera is awful, but it looks like that’s what I’ll be making do with for a while. (Need to remember that my dumbphone camera was so bad that it wasn’t even worth taking pictures–at least my DSLR waited to die until I had a smartphone!)
The kids and I are missing Derek. He was gone most of last week, and he left early yesterday and won’t be back ’til tomorrow. Everyone is fighting for my attention, the terrible 4s are way worse than the terrible 2s, my stress level is through the roof, we really need to start packing, and oh yes, we have schoolwork to do. Today I bribed the five of us with a trip to Starbucks if we could hold it together for a couple hours this morning. I managed to buy thank you gift cards for Tommy’s soccer coaches, the kids got steamers, and I’m using the caffeine boost to power through another day of single mom-ing it. And look! They’re all dressed! Thanks to Elizabeth, who has stepped up and been taking Janie to the potty all morning, put her in a disposable for our outing, got her dressed in clean clothes after she drenched herself with dishwater right before we needed to leave, and even found matching shoes and put them on.
Great shot of the kids! I notice that, for your first smartphone photo, you managed to sneak in a “selfie”. Clever!