Blogging Every Day in August: A photo of us (Day 2)

Sarah at Yummy Mummy In Training has set herself a challenge of blogging every day in August and has listed her prompts. As my blogging is a bit hit and miss at the moment, I will be using her prompts to generate some ideas too.

Today's prompt is: A photo of us.

Whilst reading some blogs on Sunday, I saw a post someone had made of professional family photographs, it's something I've been thinking about for a while, so hopefully will get booked soon.

I enjoy taking photo's. I take photo's of Little Lady often, as you can probably tell from the blog! 

We usually manage to get some pictures of her with Daddy, even if he does hate photographs!

I have even started to ask him to take pictures of me and Kiki too. As I realised during her 1st year I think we have four pictures of us.

But as I'm usually the one behind the camera, we only have one picture of mummy, daddy, and Little Lady!

That is shocking and we must rectify that!

Reasons to be Cheerful

I'm struggling a lot lately, be it depression, pregnancy, hormones, whatever, I want to call it I guess. I am trying to be kind to myself, but it is always so much easier to blame myself.

But damn it! I will not be beaten, so here are this week's reasons to be cheerful.

Photography

My old camera, a digital compact Canon PowerShot A470, died recently and I was lost without it. I bought a cheap camera as a replacement, but it was never going to be a long relationship. I enjoy photography too much to put up with bad quality images! So this week I (along with my trusty Google) managed to repair it. However, I also used the opportunity of a broken camera to read up on reviews for Digital SLRs. I have wanted one for a while, but couldn't afford or justify it, especially not with a baby on the way. 

And then it happened...

I saw a second hand shop selling three Digital SLR kits within my budget. As with most things I buy, I have my usual go to sites for reviews and tech stuff, I am a blatant out and proud geek. 

I did it. I actually only went and bought it! Eeek! 

Now looking forward to figuring out all the extra features *grins*.

Open University

Registration for Open University courses for October opened. I have registered for a new module, just waiting for confirmation of financial support. I don't need the points, but I do need the experience for the next level. I have also requested places on two short courses in between my current course ending and this one starting. I am not sure I will get either of these as I need financial support, and it seems quite complicated because I am not a new student, but I have applied, so just have to wait and see *crosses fingers*.

Pregnancy Massages

I continue to have pregnancy massages, which are beneficial to me, physically and mentally, and also to baby.