Seriously Charmed Photography » Darwin Photography, Children, Weddings, Family, Maternity, Newborn

First of all let me say I am not responsible for all the photos published here, there were too many that I just loved, too many that made me giggle. It’s her, yep, that little girl starring back at me through my computer screen. Miss Olivia. But alas, do not let her gorgeousness nor her size fool you, yes, she is cute isn’t she, big beautiful blue eyes, cute little smile, yes, I see it all too, but she is feisty, I recognise all the signs, because perhaps I am a little this way myself, bossy, and kind of like ‘I will do it myself said the little red hen’, and so she did. And so did I.

Our family moved to Alice Springs when Shyenne was two months old, and Leo only two and a half. I said goodbye to my family and friends and ventured into a world where I didn’t know anyone. I left behind my corporate job and settled into motherhood. Gone were the business clothes, high heels, and gorgeous handbags, I traded that for my new ‘mum life’ in Alice supporting my hubby who was posted there after graduating as a cop. For the next four years I made friends, friends that grew to be part of my family. Some of them, even bigger than that. I fell in love with all their kids like they were my nieces and nephews, and when we said goodbye and moved back to Darwin I felt like my heart had stopped beating. There is something very sacred about raising your kids with likeminded people, something that bonds you forever. I know, incredibly soppy right, but true. So there I was unpacking in a new house, same Darwin but everything for me had changed. I was not going back to my corporate job (after Alice kicked my butt into photography), and I was, for the most part alone. Yes, I still had my family and Darwin friends, but it was different. I was different. I wasn’t corporate Tina anymore. I was just me, wife, mum, photographer, at home. As fate would have it (I know right) a couple of weeks after we moved in, our next door neighbours also moved in. We were the new kids on the block, well, not as such, but we were both newbies to the street. Sharon quickly became my ‘new friend’ we had coffee first, and then wine, she cooked sweets for me, and dinner, and I babysat her kids (well not while drinking wine, but you get the drift). It’s been a year now that we have lived next door to each other, and we have become good friends, really good friends, we are the same but different. My heart is a little fuller with her in it. It is a blessing to have her next door, and guess what? Her kids, they call me Aunty T.
XOXOXO