{"id":612,"date":"2008-03-26T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-03-26T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:58:06","slug":"chicago-area-spring-break-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/chicago-area-spring-break-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Area Spring Break Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was so looking forward to hanging out with my kids for 10 days. You know, no school, no early a.m. wake ups. None of the usual garbage. But WHOA. WHOOOA. I tell you I was truly unprepared for the assault of pent up indoors craziness unleashed upon my home in the past (let’s count them) 6 days. Gosh, I tell you, I feel like I am this.close. to losing it. LOL. Maybe not but in the span of 3 hours last night my girls managed to do more damage than I could ever imagine (let’s leave it to your imagination when I say that the dog got loose and was found consuming roadkill on the side of the road yesterday evening….the beauty of living in the exurbs, my friends).<\/p>\n

So to combat the crazy life that my children have ever so thoughtfully thrust upon me I decided I’d drive them crazy RIGHT back. Yup. Today was picture day.<\/p>\n

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\"Feisty\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Mocha<\/a><\/p>\n

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It goes without saying that picture day is particularly painful for at least one of my girls (sometimes both). Today was M’s turn. Nothing I could do could get that shot I was searching for. L was perfection–tilting her head just so, laughing, smiling. M…well devil is in the details. She didn’t like not supermodel posing for me (I love age 8, I love age 8 ) and huffed at me. So when I focused on L, she’d get in the camera too and make faces.<\/p>\n

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It was NOT AT ALL painful for me. Nope. Not a bit. (sigh)<\/p>\n

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Well at least I got some purty pictures. I mean the fruits of my hour and a half labor with them traipsing to various spots…um, I got about 10 total usable images. I suppose I shouldn’t complain. Too much.
\nSo there you have it. I think I can offiicially photograph ANYONE at this point. Oh and ultimately, even though I plotted against them to drive them crazy, I fear they won this round. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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xoxo, Mare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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