Sometimes being an adult sucks. Making tough choices. Realizing your choices aren’t being heard. Wanting to fix something but being unable. It all sucks. Being frustrated because someone cut my pb&j the wrong way seems like a dream. What I wouldn’t give to go back to my biggest problem being whether or not the guy… Read More Being an adult is the worst.

So I’ve made the leap from hobbyist to professional. I love being behind my camera and I love what I can do in Lightroom and Photoshop so I hope I can someday make it a career. I can think of nothing better then spending days talking to families, playing with babies, taking pictures, and hearing… Read More Foray into photography

Now that baby L is waddling into the toddler stage of his life I have started to think about Baby #2. Maybe it’s because I’ve been getting more sleep. Maybe it’s hormones. Maybe it’s seeing my little guy leave my arms and start his journey to independence. Whatever it is I almost can’t believe I’ve… Read More When to have a new baby?

I’m not going to lie, I love New Year’s resolutions. Not just for myself either, I like whenever ANYone has them. I know it’s cliché, and I know half of them never get done but still.. it is that fresh start feeling. That hopeful feeling that a new year brings. I really love it. My… Read More New Year (2016)

I’ve gone back to work. It’s tough. Mostly because I feel a little selfish for doing so. We don’t absolutely need me to work but if we want any extras then I have to. Okay, really if I want any extras we have to. If I want to hit up Hobby Lobby for some craft… Read More Back at work.

I have to get this off my chest. Many nights when I’m laying down next to my sweet baby I think, if only briefly, of the little boy dead on the beach. The one whose parents were trying to get him to safety. Sometimes it’s just for a moment and sometimes I can’t help my dwell… Read More Syria. (Serious post, trigger warning)

There were a lot of things my parents told me as a kid that I didn’t really care to believe or it was a typical case of in one ear out the other. However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize they were right about a lot of things. Something I assume tends to happen… Read More Truths from my parents

I am a list person. I LOVE a good list. I love to write them. Lose them. Write a new one. Forget about that one. Write ANOTHER list and then eventually start noticing that some of things I’m rewriting have actually gotten done. So while I rarely get the satisfaction of crossing things off a list,… Read More Lists, lists, lists!