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This time of year is special – in all the good ways and in all the hard ways. I know both intimately.  Things are joyous with Christmas crafts, and tree cutting, and twinkle lights reflecting off of frosted windows in the early mornings, but some things are more sorrow than joy, more somber than laughter-filled.  […]

Thoughts of a Mother: Tension & Hope

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I don’t have anything entirely profound to say here, to be honest. Maybe that’s a bad way to hook you into reading the rest of this post (?) but it’s the most honest thing I can say. We all carry a tiny tool in our pockets (ahem, it’s a phone) to document our days if […]

Thoughts of a Mother: Slow Down, Take the Picture

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The following is from a passage posted to Instagram on February 1, 2023: My youngest is almost two and I’m finally starting to feel truly like myself again – mind and body and spirit. It’s not that this new being I’ve become since babies and marriage isn’t the real me – it deeply, unwaveringly is. […]

Thoughts of a Mother: Grapefruit & Evolving

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I'm a wife, mother to three, and creative who loves to document the nuances of family in beautiful, heirloom quality imagery. I work with mothers and families who know that family rhythms & legacy are worth preserving in visual form for the generations of family to follow.

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