Winter 2024 is here and it’s time to plan the New Year’s Resolutions and all the adventures for the upcoming year. For my home life, this involves vacations. Top priority! My family and I try to get away three times a year. We don’t always leave the state, but we do try to get away together to have some time as a family.

For the business, I like to review all my financial numbers and see what areas I would like to grow and what parts of the business I should leave behind. I have a business degree and (I know this sounds really nerdy, but..) it is one of my favorite times of year. Analyzing the business! Yay! Of course, I look at the business all year long, but January is a special time to compare areas. I just love it.

(I’d love to hear from any other nerdy newborn photographers that like the annual evaluations - let me know if you have any amazing spreadsheets - I’ll oooo and ahhh over them I promise!)

I’m still working on all my goals for my business, but I would love to see more families coming back for the mid-year, six month baby sessions, 6 month milestones, sitter sessions…whatever you want to call them. This isn’t a financial goal, but a personal one. Over the years, this seems to the be a session that gets left out, and it’s an important one. It’s honestly my favorite session out of newborn session, baby session, and cake smash sessions. This is the age where a baby looks like a baby - the baby in the advertisements, the baby of the cartoon drawings, the Gerber baby. The right age is old enough to sit up but too young to stand.

This is an age no mother wants to forget. When your baby is a baby. We must capture it. :)

I’m sure there will be more goals - vacations, financial, personal, etc. For me, this is just the start. I think 2024 is going to be a great year!