I have really slacked with sharing personal posts lately.  All I ever wanted out of life was to be a wife and mom and I get to live that life every single day.  And I am grateful for it.  And lucky for me, I found another dream realized along the way too- to be a wedding photographer!  This business takes so much time and energy and sometimes I forget to share that there is an actual person running this place, not just work work work.  So today, I am sharing a bit of my life.

This is my last year of having Ames and Finn both home most of the time.  They go to preschool three mornings a week but spend so much time with me still.  Somedays it stresses me out because my work hours are cut so much shorter but I know this season is coming to an end very soon so I am embracing each little moment left.  Little moments like the one I am going to share remind me of why being a parent is so awesome!

One day I was driving to pick up groceries with Ames and Finn in tow.  I buckled Ames, checked to make sure my trunk was empty, hopped in the car and left.  We get to the stoplight a block from our house and Finn starts SCREAMING “I AM NOT BUCKLED!!!!  MOMMY YOU FORGOT TO BUCKLE ME!!!!”  I assure him I will pull over and buckle him to calm down.  Well, Ames starts to chime in “Is Finn going to die?  Mommy I think he is dying.  His eyes are turning red!  OH NO!  Mommy, Finn didn’t buckle and now he is dying!!!!!”  I calmly said “he’s not dying!  His eyes are red because he is crying it is ok!”  As I pulled over to buckle him, I had to explain that you simply can’t die from not being buckled up.  That if we were in a wreck and they weren’t buckled they could die, but just sitting in the car unbuckled will not cause death.  I couldn’t help but chuckle at them. So please note that the Leonard family takes buckling up very seriously!!