Can I share a bit of my heart here today? Friday isn’t a day I usually blog, but if you have been following me for any time at all, you know that I typically blog about 4 days a week, and have kept up that pace for almost 2 years.  It is a huge priority in my business because it is my #1 marketing system (for free!), and because I love it. I love writing and I always have, but much more so, I love sharing the love stories of the people that I get the pleasure of photographing. I love educating through the blog, and teaching photographers and small business owners the tips and tricks I have learned over the years that took me so much digging to find.  And I love giving advice for brides— because I KNOW how hard wedding planning is! Simply put, I love the blog (and all social media goes along with it, especially Instagram which has really been my favorite platform for the last 2 years!).

But here is the heart part. I am in a season of life right now where I even though my dreams are running full steam ahead (crazily full) at all hours of the day, I feel like my life is asking me to slow down a bit. My oldest will start full day school in the fall and for the first time since he was born I won’t get to spend daytime with him. We are headed into summers, and while I wouldn’t trade the schedule and flexibility of owning my own business for my school schedule ever, one of the greatest benefits of my first career as a teacher was knowing that the summers were 100% all for my kids.  We just have some factors going on right now that make me want to invest a little extra time there and a little less time on the extras of this job.  Not the shooting and teaching– I am not sure those will ever change. But I think my social media presence might pull back just a little going into the next few weeks to make room for this season.  It is really hard for me because I don’t really do 80% or 50%…it isn’t in my vocabulary. But I feel a little burn out with a constantly curated instagram feed and developing so much new content ever week between the blog and newsletters, so I am going to try and try to give myself a little grace for the next few weeks and just take a little room to breathe.

If you have been through a season like this, I would love to hear from you about getting through to the other side. It is the first real feeling of needing a little break that I didn’t have a time limit on (like to get through musical/etc) and I am curious about moving through it. I also want to assure you that nothing big is changing here- I will still blog each week so please don’t give up on me! 🙂 I am just going to give myself a little more space through it all for a while. And if you want to keep up, I am still moving full steam ahead in newsletter land– so much fun content is going out there- click to sign up and stay involved there!  Thanks so much for being along for the journey and all the hills and valleys! I feel like I am chugging up a bit hill right now, but I have been around enough to know that pushing through to what comes next is so worth it.