my new place

At long last...

Beth Miga Photography| the blog

A big thanks to Krystyn of Krizzy Designs for making it all look so pretty!

And if you really love me, you can now be my facebook fan too, just by clicking on that little button over there on the right.

And finally, a review, in pictures, of what we have been up to for the last few weeks.

Lots of beach time. A solid week of 100% perfect beach days in fact. So good that we found ourselves dragging the girls home from the beach one night because the sun had set.

Toasting marshmallows on the beach. An annual tradition.

The carnival parade in Provincetown. Another annual tradition, this year with a theme of "Peace, Love and Go-Go Boots".

and for you Boston locals, yes, that is the Randy Price

The forced sunset photo shoot, complete with matching hair bows, so I have at least a couple of decent shots of my own kids.

And for the last week, back home, time spent catching up with friends.

finally, I reveal the front of my house on this blog. HA HA

Claire eating lunch poolside

Abby "laying out". God help me.

And now the mornings are turning cooler and thoughts are turning to school. The new shoes and new outfits are ready, the backpacks are ready, the kids are ready and quite honestly, this mom is ready. This week we sneak in a few last day trips, then Abby is off to Kindergarten and Claire is off to preschool two mornings a week, leaving me with a whole five hours a week all to myself. Oh, the possibilities fall brings!!

it's official!

On this hot August morning, hours after my husband left for work in the big city, I was woken by the sweet face of a three year old, inches from my own.

I made pancakes from scratch with blueberries from our recent blueberry picking adventure. Bate, Bate, bate chanted my two helpers as they mixed (that Dora... so educational).

I got dressed, tended to a lovie emergency and boo-boos so serious that they required multiple band aids. Dora band aids of course.

Finally, I made it over to town hall with my two assistants in tow.

Did I have my EIN number from the IRS? Sure, right here in my bag between some dried playdoh and an extra diaper.

And so it was that this stay at home mom officially got her business license.

There it is in Abby's hand, with an official stamp on it and everything.

Photo taken with Fuji point and shoot camera. Heh.

Beth Miga Photography is officially.... official.

To celebrate we had lunch at McDonalds, chosen because 'they give you a toy mama!!', followed by a little pre vacation shopping spree at Target.

In addition to the above piece of paper, there is also an official website:

bethmigaphotography.com

A blog and a fan page are in the works. So much done and so much yet to do and learn!

I can honestly say that when I left my corporate job just over three years ago, I had no idea that I would end up here. Turning my passion into a real business. And yet here I am. I can't wait to see where life goes from here!

well, hello again

My latest excuse for not blogging? My poor computer has been sick. Very sick. So sick it needed to be rebuilt (side note to anyone considering building a self hosted blog: you get what you pay for from places like blue host that leave absolutely all site security up to the user).

The brief run down of what we have been up too:

The weather is finally hot. Yay for beach weather!

Claire is still not using the potty. Not even close. I tried the running out of diapers threat and lost. One month to go until preschool, which requires potty training, starts.

Abby has a loose tooth. She fills her days wiggling it, asking me to wiggle it and giving me the run down of all she has learned about losing teeth. Angela lost one tooth and it didn't hurt... Toni lost one and there was blood... that girl at the playground today has lost eight teeth... and so on.

And as for me, I have to say I have enjoyed this forced break from my computer. I think I will continue to keep the blogging light through the rest of the summer and simply enjoy these last few weeks of lazy days with my girls. Photo updates will continue over on flickr!