Just returned from doing something I pretty much had to do or I wouldn't have done it...  no not the dentist.  A photo shoot.  With the kids.  Well, even if the kids weren't there... I still wouldn't have wanted to do a photo shoot. 

Ask me to help grout a bathroom and I'd roll up my sleeves.  Tell me I need a professional photo for the back cover of my book and I literally stall and put it off until I absolutely have no choice but to take the picture.

I emailed a photographer I met a year ago at a party who I honestly have tried to take a photo with several times since I met her but one thing or another has happened.  So off Natalie and I went with Luke and Nana (who would be assuming the role of child wrangler at the shoot) to get professional photos of me with the kids in really casual clothing.  I really hope one of those photos come out nicely.

And then came the time for me to take my headshot so when I'm asked for an author's bio picture I can actually have a nice one to give them. I should probably explain. I don't have a professional headshot because I am never pleased with how they turn out. The photo on my "About Savvy Mommy" page wasn't taken by a professional photographer. It was a fluke that the photo came out nice and decent enough to put up on the site.  The rest of the photos on the website of me by myself or with the children are clearly taken by someone other than a professional photographer.  And I've chosen to not stress about it because photos are just not my thing.

So here I am alone (kids are in the other part of the studio playing with cars with Nana), leaning on a couch about to take my headshot and all I could think of was my huge forehead and the fact that I do have "runaway bride" eyes when I take photos.  Lovely, huh.  So who knows how that photo will turn out.  I honestly think I'll end up forever giving anyone who requests it a photo of me with my children. I can hear it now "Um... but we only wanted your headshot.."

Fingers crossed everyone. Maybe the extremely patient photographer we worked with was able to perform a miracle and catch me when I wasn't stressing out over things. *sigh*