Expecting number 3

I’ve known this family ever since their first-born baby daugther Amerie made her appearance into this world (you can see her newborn session here) and we’ve become good friends as I captured their growing family over the last 3 years. Now that number three has arrived (the last one, I’ve been categorically told) I’m a…

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The colours of spring

The Spring this year is all messed up, and I’m sure glad I didn’t schedule any shoots specifically around daffodils, or pink blossom, or bluebells which all came out in totally wrong times this year. But there is still and amazing display of colour everywhere, and on Monday I headed out to Isabella Plantation in…

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An availability update

I haven’t blogged for a loooong time; here at the Mamzenko headquarters we’ve all just been through a series of colds, coughs, chest infections and what not, so unfortunately blogging has taken a back seat. I’m hoping now that the Spring is finally showing it’s face, the colds will be gone and I can start…

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Mother’s Day

Capturing relationships between mothers and their children is my speciality. I have hundreds of photograph on my hard drive of happy families, and mums cuddling their children and mums laughing with their children and mums reading to their children… and I guess I could have made a happy collage of all those photos and wish…

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Christina Meyer-King - March 10, 2013 - 11:56 am

Wonderful post. I’m feeling just the same most of the time with only difference I have no children yet. But I guess it all gets even harder when I actually will! Financial reasons and other stuff are important, of course (it is my headache as well ;-/ but I think sometimes you just need listen to your heart and GO for it.
My grandma is very old too and I didn’t see both my mum and grandma for 8 months now, so missing them terribly. So… I am committed to go later Aug this year.

Tonya, as a little advice: check EasyJet – they started offering some great deals to Russia since March. Good luck and I hope you see your family real soon!

Ps. Sorry for the long response but your post and your frankness struck a real chord with me.

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