one mama's truth, sprinkled with giggles
Does anyone else find yourself scrambling to throw outfits together the night before family photos... Every. Single. Time? After a couple of years of regret, I'm finally getting more proactive this year and planning outfits well ahead of time. For this year's holiday photos, I went with a blue and green theme and found some [...]
Holiday Pjs are selling out FAST this year! Maybe people are extra excited about the holidays, or maybe they realize that shipping is taking FOREVER right now. Whatever the reason, family matching pjs are flying off the shelves, so you need to act fast if you want them! In fact, instead of writing this post, [...]
I still cannot believe that our little firecracker is ONE (and has been for over a month now)! I keep thinking about how just a year ago, Alden was such a tiny, helpless little potato, and- in the blink of an eye- he's grown into our speedy, curious, opinionated, giggly little boy. He's the cutest, [...]
Photo by Diana Lupu My mother doesn't like her hands. I remember the words she used to describe them when I was a child. Words of resentment, regret, reproach. She mourned the loss of their once youthful skin, now wrinkling as a rude testament to her age. She loathed the blue veins, “like snakes”, she [...]
Quarantine life is hard. I know you feel it too. In the first few weeks I found myself binging on both Netflix and potato chips, grieving all my cancelled plans and really struggling to adjust to my new "normal". With so many changes coming so suddenly, my life felt out of control, and the Virgo [...]
Just because we're all in quarantine doesn't mean this Mother's Day can't be special! This happens to be my very first Mother's Day, and I'm really just looking forward to spending quality time with baby Alden and the hubs. The number one item I'm asking for this year is a CLEAN HOUSE along with a [...]
See these two photos? Believe it or not, they show the same parents, baby, and dog and were shot in the same location. The first is from our staged newborn photo shoot with professional hair and makeup, carefully selected outfits, perfect lighting, a talented professional photographer, and surely some Lightroom edits. The second is a [...]