Sunday was full of boxes. Monday was full of boxes. I have a feeling today will be full of boxes as well. We are slowly making progress, thank goodness. Quite literally, I think I’ve been paralyzed about the whole situation. Avoidance at it’s best. If I ignore the work that lies ahead, will it go […]

This is it folks. It’s go time. I’m in a situation I have found myself in many times before, but this time. . . I smell trouble. Back in 2011, read about my packing progress. I’m not rookie at this moving thing. I’ve been there, done that. And then done it all over again. Except–well, […]

These are the best kind of newborn sessions. No, not because the adorable, squishy baby slept like a champ the whole time (he didn’t), and not because he didn’t pee and poop on a lot of stuff (he did) . . . but because I was there for the beginning of the fairy tale for […]

Things in our house have been a little one the interesting side for me lately. Child number three has been talking up a storm. And by talking up a storm, I really mean that he has his own dialect and I normally don’t understand a lick of what he’s talking about. Which means he gets […]

Meet Miss Alaska. She is a winter baby through and through, and gorgeous to boot. Her eyelashes were killer and she flashed the most incredible smile at me a few times. Glad I was able to catch it a couple of times in an image. I have a plethora of newborns to share on my […]

If there’s one thing a death in the family does, it’s bringing families together. Physically together. If you’ve been reading my blog at all the past couple of weeks, you’d know that my mom’s dad passed away last week–the man I lovingly referred to as Papa. And though we were crushed by the news, there […]

These two handsome little dudes arrived just in time for Christmas last year. They were so adorable and one was a little chunker compared to the other. You can tell for sure that they are fraternal twins, and even from an outsiders perspective, I could tell one definitely looked like his older sister. I can’t […]

We were out of commission for over a week in the Chase house. Something bit almost all of us and caused some major damage in the toilet department. Actually, because two of our kids are pretty little, it wasn’t really the toilet department so much as the bed covering department. Lots of laundry. Lots of […]

You’d never know from all of these smiling pictures that this little princess cried through most of her first year session. Pretty sneaky, huh? Her mom will be the first to tell you she can go from zero to sixty on the angry scale in less than half a second. No worries though. . . […]

This handsome man is the one I call Papa.  The one with the really long Italian name–Calogero Antonio Rosario Arcadipane. But lovingly knows as just “Charlie”. He was taken Home into the lovely arms of Jesus yesterday morning. He was 91. My grandma has been waiting for him here since 2004, and he’s getting there […]