‘Twas two weeks before Christmas, not one. . .not three, Not a creature was sane, especially not me; The stockings were hung by the mantel in disarray, But they wouldn’t be filled by Santa, because he doesn’t visit here on Christmas Day; The children were sleeping sprawled out in their beds; While visions of ninjas […]

Okay, okay. . . I can’t tell a lie.  Today’s blog post title?  Totally misleading.  I just wanted you to all be jealous for a moment, and picture me having a laid back day, feet up on my couch, good book in hand.  My maid came and cleaned the house while I ate bon bons […]

We are early decorators for Christmas.  Normally.  We typically have our tree set up before Thanksgiving. But this year, we had a busy few weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, and then we were out of town for many days, and the tree didn’t make it’s way out of storage until the day before December. We […]

It’s been almost a week since I’ve written a blog post.  We had an interesting week to say the least.  It all began with a trip that was supposed to take nine hours, but which turned into quite a fiasco. We took off from Rochester last Tuesday night after James got home from work.  We […]

We are in full holiday swing over here.  Lots of little celebrations going on with family and friends, and we love it.  Last week, we spent the evening with some friends packing up shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.  The kids all loved it–and though it was sort of a chaotic five minute packing event, we […]

Amidst the chaos going on in my hometown of Buffalo, I thought I’d give a little shout out to summer time on my blog today.  A few days ago, I shot mini sessions in Buffalo, and in that same exact location, they are now literally up to their necks in snow.  Emergencies everywhere . . […]

Project 365 | 2014  is currently about 44 days from being done. Lately, I’ve been slipping.  I think I missed three days last week, which brings my total missed days into the teens, I think. Not too shabby for sure, but still–I’ve got to get better and not pulling the oh my goodness, it’s the […]

Amidst the chaos of autumn, it’s been awhile since we’ve had friends over.  Sunday presented a perfect opportunity for just that. I was having a day of mini sessions, and some friends that we haven’t seen in quite some time were making a bit of a drive to come to their mini.  Because the shooting […]

I have this one vivid memory from when I was little.  It was in the evening, and my mom had taken me to the library.  She took us often, which I am thankful for still to this day. I walked up to the librarian excitedly and asked her with hope in my eyes if they […]

November has arrived.  I take it day by day with the cold–but thankfully Christmas is upon us shortly, and this year I’m feeling extra excited to be in the Christmas season and to enjoy all that Christmas means.  I’m not at all annoyed that decorations are already ambushing stores or that when I was at […]