December Photo Challenge

Welp.....we made it through another year and here we are at the beginning of 2023. PJ's December photo challenge centered around the holidays so there was no shortage of photos to choose from this month! Christmas Day looks very different now that we don't have littles under our roof anymore. It's much quieter. Entrepreneur and …

Santa Hats 2022

Every year I try and take some pics of the grands in Santa hats. Honestly, I've never understood why people take exception to Santa. He's not real. I'm not going to lie to my kids. Believing in Santa will traumatize them later. They will feel betrayed. I call Bulls#!++. The original inspiration for Santa was …

The Passage of Time

One reason I love photography is that it has the ability to document a unique moment in time. Landscapes and seasons document the passage of time that never will happen in exactly the same way again. But the most dramatic moments in time are the ones where childhood is captured. From newborn photos to graduation …

September Photo Challenge: Road Trip

Here it is the end of September and once again it's time for PJ's photo challenge. This month's prompt was Road Trip. And, I went exactly one place this month outside of my normal routine so the decision was easy. A high school friend of Entrepreneur from California took a "road trip" to Missouri (by …

Respected women, part 2

On September 15th, I wrote a post about my maternal grandmother and how I respected her efforts in raising a family during the Great Depression. On the other side of Missouri, there was another woman who was doing the same thing. She is my paternal grandmother and lived outside of St. Louis in the Wentzville …