Oct 15 / 2019
This Thanksgiving weekend was hard for my Micah and, thus, hard for me. We’re in the process of having him assessed for autism, and it’s a roller coaster. One meeting I have a paediatrician that specializes in this telling me that even if I hadn’t told him a thing, he would have flagged Micah for […]
Apr 21 / 2019
My husband asked me a question during date night the other week. He asked if I could change one thing in this season of life to make motherhood easier, what would it be. Without a hesitation I said, “Take away Micah’s SPD.” His sensory processing disorder is not the hardest thing I have to deal […]
Jan 02 / 2019
I feel like I should have some deep or super inspiring thing to post here, but the truth is that I don’t! As I head into 2019 I’m not overcome with ambition to try to be more, do more, accomplish more, see more, or anything “more”. I feel like my life is super full already! […]
Dec 31 / 2018
Just a quick highlight of our last month as I’m doing a bigger blog post for the New Year that will include my top three favourite images from each month of 2018. December was filled with tiny adventures for the tiny humans. Our annual trip out to the farm to pick up our meat, a […]
Sep 28 / 2018
November is usually my busiest month of the year between editing and last-minute family shoot bookings before Christmas. However, maternity leave made that month September for me this year. Couple that with a 2.5 year-old, a 1.5 year-old, a complicated pregnancy with 2-3 appointments per week on average (and one shared car), and being 8 […]
Sep 05 / 2018
I feel like “self-care” is almost a taboo word in some circles, though with more recent articles and movements it’s becoming more socially acceptable and less “selfish”. I find that I can be good at self-care with the small things in life, which keep me afloat, but I struggle with the bigger things that ultimately […]
Aug 03 / 2018
I’ve started and stopped, and then started over with this blog post both physically and mentally more than once now. I’m all for being real on social media, but how real is too real? For those of you that know me in real life, you know that I have very little filter. If you ask, […]
May 31 / 2018
May was a very long month and I felt like I was shooting to meet my daily quota vs. because I wanted to a lot of the time, but that’s to be expected now and again during the course of a year-long project. It’s also to be expected when you have a barely 2-year old, […]
Apr 30 / 2018
Every time I go to do a monthly highlight post I remember how thankful I am that I’m doing this project – even in the midst of the “hard”. I’m on my 4th pregnancy in 3 years and it’s taking a toll on my body and my hormones. My days are filled with lots of: […]
Mar 31 / 2018
I’m not going to lie – March was exhausting for me. I don’t know what was wrong, but it was either low iron, first-trimester tiredness to the extreme, or who knows what. But most of the month I spent on the couch, often struggling to catch my breath after walking across the room, and barely […]
Feb 28 / 2018
February is often viewed as a more dreary month and it can be a struggle to find inspiration, to find beauty in the everyday. But I think the added challenge of being cooped up indoors helped me to really be deliberate about what I wanted to capture. It helped me hone in on what makes […]
Jan 31 / 2018
This year will be my third 365 project (one photo a day for each day of the year) and hopefully my second complete one! I’m doing it with a fabulous group of women for encouragement and accountability, and some of us will be doing a blog circle together at the end of each month where […]
Dec 21 / 2017
I have to admit that I wasn’t really feeling like doing my last DITL post for the year, but having successfully kept up with one per month for the rest of 2017, it would be a shame not to finish! I chose a Sunday together for this post as we were planning on taking a […]
Nov 25 / 2017
A lot of my DITL posts have been to remember special occasions – family holidays, Thanksgiving, weekends together, etc. It has been a while since I did one that is just my every day life as a working mom of two young boys during the week. In some ways those might be considered the more […]
Nov 04 / 2017
Thanksgiving morning started very early on my way to a shoot with the most beautiful sunrise and fog spreading across the fields. I grabbed us some coffees and headed over to the river which we found was still blanketed in fog that made for some very cool photos! After the shoot was over, I headed […]
Oct 08 / 2017
I’m running a little behind on posting my personal DITL projects since we are in the heart of family photo season over here, but I thought Thanksgiving weekend seemed like the perfect time to step back from work a little bit and spend some time focusing on my own family, both in my editing and […]
Sep 24 / 2017
To the overachieving, world-conquering, (possibly also holding down a job) mama, stop. You need to know something. You need to know that YOU are ENOUGH. Read that slowly. You, yes, YOU, are enough. You are doing okay. You are doing more than okay. Because it really has nothing to do with “doing”. It has to […]
Sep 05 / 2017
I was raised to think of vacations as rather frivolous, but I have to admit that after all the trips we’ve taken together, the memories really are worth the money. That being said, we did upgrade our housing situation and have 2 babies less than 15 months apart in the last bit, so we won’t […]
Jul 23 / 2017
July has been nick-named “solo parenting month” because out of the 31 days, Daddy is away for approximately 17 of them between four separate trips to various camps to make promotional videos and a weekend tournament event. At the time that I’m writing this there are only two more days and one more overnight to […]
Jul 01 / 2017
Sometimes I wish I could hire myself to properly document our days. The photographer in me cringes at the mixed lighting, out-of-focus shots, and sometimes total lack of creativity that these “DITL” posts end up with. But there’s grace. I am not shooting these for everyone else. I am shooting these for me. And it […]
May 26 / 2017
My day doesn’t really “end” when I have a newborn who is up constantly all night long, but if I had to “start” Wednesday’s day-in-the-life post off at a specific time, I would start it with this sweet face. Levi has been fussy around 5:30/6:00am lately and Nick gets up with Micah at 7:00, so I […]
May 08 / 2017
I was looking forward to doing April’s DITL (Day In The Life) on Easter Sunday as a new family of four, but I wasn’t expecting our fourth member to show up 5 days after his latest EDD – estimated delivery date – (read: shooting two days after giving birth), so it’s a little cobbled together, […]
Mar 24 / 2017
“We have to stop thinking that anything less than perfect is failure. We have to choose grace for ourselves and our abilities. Because the minute we decide we’re going to stop being defined by what we don’t get done and instead take pride in what we are able to achieve, grace lets truth win and […]
Mar 01 / 2017
“Because, friend, even if you are on top of it when it comes to cleaning and organizing, even if you haven’t related to one sentence of my stories about laundry-filled couches, even if you can’t stand clutter and your house is always put together, I want you to hear me say this: The messy areas […]
Jan 09 / 2017
Once a month, for 2017, it’s my goal to do a day-in-the-life post to document our year and the changes within it. The moments that seem boring or ordinary now, I know I will want to remember down the road. You think you will remember it all, but you don’t even remember most of it. […]
Apr 04 / 2016
I can’t believe it’s already April! At the same time, as I look back over my daily photos for the last month, some of them seem like they were taken ages ago now. Anyway, here is March together as a family of three! WEEK ONE: The first week of March was full of taking care […]
Mar 23 / 2016
I have always loved “Day In The Life” posts. They’re like little windows where you can see into a whole new world of someone living a completely different life. It’s kind of like reality t.v. for the photography world! In fact, I was so intrigued by the idea that I did one back in August 2015. […]
Jan 01 / 2015
You know what makes writing a New Year’s post easier? Having your entire year documented daily in photographs! I feel like 2014 was a big year for our family. We started the year with a lot of new beginnings: New business. New job for Nick. New direction in life. We enjoyed having more time than […]
Oct 14 / 2014
Tuesday, October 7th, I started a new project at work and we had two days of orientation. I’ll be working at a different location every Tuesday and Wednesday from this month onward until, at the very least, next Summer, helping test new software for the hospitals. I’m excited for both the change in task and […]
Sep 30 / 2014
I think I post about “adventures” a lot. I call them adventures because I’m pretty easily amused and even going to the grocery store counts as an adventure to me. An adventure, in my mind, is anything that is different or out of the ordinary. Anything that isn’t working or sleeping. But in my eagerness […]
Sep 11 / 2014
Friday, my husband took me on The Most Amazing surprise date! I won’t elaborate more here as I wrote an entire blog post just about the awesome experience, and if you’re interested, you can check it out HERE. Saturday I was hired to shoot my very first Romanian baptism. I read a little about it […]
Sep 11 / 2014
Sometime in the Spring of this year, Nick and I were sitting in a restaurant lobby waiting for seating for Wing Wednesday. We were talking about how last year we didn’t get to do anything fun really because of the work hours we kept. We were talking about how we wanted this year to be […]
Aug 22 / 2014
It’s still August. It’s still Summer. But it’s changing. The light is disappearing noticeably faster each day. It’s taking on its Autumn-gold tinge too early. I swear I saw my first red leaf yesterday boldly announcing that school buses will soon be retracing familiar paths and Pumpkin Spice Lattes will be gracing office desks. The […]
Aug 05 / 2014
Last week Nick offhandedly mentioned that the summer camp we both worked at together ages ago asked him to go over and spend a couple days shooting a video for them, and they offered that I could come along as well. Since Nick works Saturdays and I had used up all my holidays at work […]
Aug 03 / 2014
Thursday, around 8pm, we packed up the car with some snacks, an air mattress, camera gear, and a computer pre-loaded with a movie to watch. I took Friday off work, so I knew we could stay out late. We headed West to drive along the ocean to find a good location to see the stars. […]