“HELLO ALLISON!!!!” I heard a small voice shout through the screen door as I pulled my gear out of the car. “MY NAME IS AVERY!!!” I walked around the house to the backyard while Avery and Stephanie finished getting ready …
Category: Lifestyle Photography
Take a Picture; Make it Last Longer
Last week was my daughter’s first week of daycare. I went through the full range of emotions, including but not limited to guilt, elation, sadness, doubt, and freedom (freedom is an emotion), all on repeat. In the week leading up …
Home Away from Home
We left our house last week and went to someone else’s (empty) house for a whole week. It was the first time I’d been out of Virginia since 2018. The first time we’d been away from home since my daughter …
Memorable Moments: Session Roundup
My two year old is in a properly curious stage. He loves to go into my office and stare at the books and doo-dads on the bookcase, admiring all of “Mama’s books.” He’ll sometimes ask me to pull down big …
Self-Care with Small Children: Naptime Edition
It’s Sunday afternoon and I have a laundry list of things I want to do during naptime… including laundry. There are a couple of things I want to buy online, there’s football on TV for the first time in 8 …
An Important Announcement
I don’t like to be in the center of attention. In case you didn’t know, I much prefer to be behind the camera than in front of it. I was able to hide the fact that I was pregnant with …
Into the Great Unknown
I’ve written a lot about life as a mother in the last year, and how much I’ve learned. I’ve mentioned the plethora of things I didn’t know that I didn’t know. Postpartum anxiety and depression, lactation issues, hormones, crying, cluster …
All the Goals
I like to set lots of goals at the beginning of a new season, and the new year is no exception. I love to track and manage and organize goals and watch how I grow and check things off my …
Pictures of You
Pictures of you are not for you. Sure, sometimes it’s nice to admire a *really* good photo of yourself, but for the most part, we’re each our own worst critic, and we hide photos of ourselves in drawers or the …