An Introduction of Sorts

I have started and deleted several posts here in the past few days, not sure if I was ready to tackle the things that that have been swirling in my mind.  Until today when I decided, jump in with both feet, what have you got to lose?

A couple of weeks ago, I took a huge leap of faith, and bought Becky Hood Photography.com.  Like any child/teen/family/newborn/people photographer will tell you, it started out as a way to document our kids.  And then it turned into a hobby, which has been parlayed into a business.  I will tell you, in September I started just taking photos of Meredith when she cheered her first games.  Then it became the whole squad, then it was basketball, and then the basketball players.  By the end of the season I was taking close to 800 photos every game of everyone on the floor.  I will hand over CD’s to the moms in a couple of weeks with photos of their sons and daughters.  Also included will be my website address and a plug that I’m available for photo sessions that do not take place on a basketball court.

I asked a friend of mine right after I bought the domain
I can do this, right
He said ‘You already are. Now you’ll get paid for it.”

The website it not fully functional yet. I will be by the time the parents have the CD’s of their kids in their hands.  I am still working on getting photos added and my About Me page, and my “OMG I can’t believe I am actually going to try and do this” page.  But go check it out, just know that it’s got the drywall up, and  windows installed but that’s about it.

Back in January I had my first featured post over at BlogHer.  It was about how there are precious few resources on the internet, and in the blogging world for parents of teens.  That post put me in contact with Kristen over at Four Hens and a Rooster who agreed, there are few places for moms of teens to go.   And because she can take and idea and run with it, she created Ten to Twenty Parenting and has asked me to be a contributing author over there.  As my writer introduction page says “The only credibility I have to give any sort of parenting advice is the fact that my daughters are still alive and thriving.  And considering my track record with plants, I consider this a major miracle.”  But I am excited about the new website, and the opportunity to write about being a single mom of teenage girls and all the problems, and joys that entails.  Please go over and check us out.

I have plenty to say about the drama going on around the web and in the world of politics.  I promise I’ll sound of on all those things this week.  I just wanted to take a minute of your time and say Hey!  I’m at two more places around the web, please go check them out.  Feedback is always welcome. Seriously.