Staying home with my children has always been on my life-long unwritten to-do list. (Along with attending The Oprah Show and watching the space shuttle launch — which I guess will never happen. Sad.) I know staying at home isn’t for everyone, but it was important to me even before having children. Last year when I left the corporate world to...
Life at our house has been hectic lately. I practically skipped over the month of May (hence no May self-portrait) and was alarmed to realize today that half of June has passed as well. Although I was still officially on maternity leave, I started shooting again in April on an as needed basis for my 2011 couples. I...
All month I’ve been thinking about how to represent April 2011 in my self-portrait project. Most everything in my life this month has revolved around my day-to-day mommy duties and the slow transition back to work. I could have taken a photo of me washing bottles or changing diapers, I guess. Allen even teased me about...
I feel like March has flown by. Of course it is likely because I have been in a newborn-baby-induced coma for the last two weeks! We have been very fortunate to have a lot of help from our families and friends, but the demands of a newborn baby have definitely taken their toll in the sleep department....
Today I turn 29. How in the heck did that happen? I don’t even know. It seems like just yesterday I was giddy about getting my driver’s license or being able to finally buy beer. And here I sit, entering the last year of my twenties. Last year I wrote: Growing older doesn’t scare me. The numbers...
