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"A portrait of my child, once a week, every week in 2013"

This photo is from last Sunday on our precious family day out. I've worked so much, too much recently, and I really wanted to get out as a family. We went to Arundel Castle and explored the Keep and the grounds. The gardens there are beautiful and Stanley enjoyed running around all of it. This week I have worked almost 65 hours. A ridiculous amount. Stanley has been with Ben, at nursery or at either set of grandparents the whole week, shipped off at 9am and returning at 6pm for me to bath him put him to bed and then work again to midnight or so. I'm exhausted and cannot wait for these deadlines to be over with. It is a good lesson though. There is such a thing as too much work a freelancer can take on. I won't do it again. I've missed this boy SO very much and that 'mum guilt' is not a nice thing. The book artwork is due in in a week and a half. I. Can. Not. Wait.