Thursday thoughts

Yes, I'm still here. I realize I've been kind of absent in the past few weeks. I've had so much going on and I'm trying to get things done on time so the blog kind of takes a backseat, sorry. But I did want to drop in real quick for a few things.

It's been a long week already. I'm housesitting for some friends, and also pet-sitting for them. And on top of that, they are selling their house so realtors are calling to stop by on occasion. I was also on call for NILMDTS two days earlier this week.

I wanted to share my NILMDTS experiences again because it's not an easy thing and it helps to spread the word for anyone else that may go through an experience like this.

I ended up getting two calls for Tuesday at different hospitals. The morning session was a sweet session because the parents were keeping up their spirits to enjoy the time they had with their baby until that afternoon. We did a few shots with the baby, twin sister, and their parents, and then we took a few shots of the two girls together in the same bed. They are beautiful little girls with little charm bracelets and necklaces.

In the afternoon, I received another call for a baby that passed away unexpectedly. It was a difficult session because it was so sudden and the father had to be called at work. Watching him with the baby just ripped at my heart. While I was still in the room, I was given notice of another baby that suddenly passed away. So I hung around to see what the parent's decided about pictures being taken. We ended up staying and again, it's so hard to watch the father break down crying. The mother wasn't present because she was at a different hospital, so we photographed the baby alone for the parents. And I've just been informed that two of the families are having services this weekend for their babies. That's one of the things about this service: it doesn't end for me the day of the session. I still have work to do afterwards and then I still keep their memory with me even after that.


Earlier, I mentioned that realtors call to let me know the house will be showing at a particular time. Sometimes I have more notice than other times, and sometimes I have 20 mins. to leave everything nice and clean. A few times, I've had to leave kind of quickly and I didn't have anywhere to put things that were out of place. The dishwasher had clean dishes and the sink was already nice and dry so I didn't know what to do with the dirty dish, spoon, and glass that I had. I was telling my friend Susan about the situation and I didn't think anything was weird about what I was doing until she started laughing and couldn't stop. It really hadn't hit me how absurd it was what I was doing. I started throwing things into the refrigerator while I was gone. You can't throw it into the pantry because interested buyers will look in the pantry to see how big it is, but it's not necessary to look into the regrigerator. I promise there was logic behind my actions, not just an early onset of Alzheimer's.