Days in My Life

My Beautiful Girl, Your teachers told us a sweet story recently about my favorite little hand. Your classmates were making a hand print craft. Apparently you went last and the other children gathered around to watch. Miss Erin said you held up your left hand, laughed and told the class is was “baby hand’s turn”. […]

OK, don’t hate the Murgs. Yes, we escaped Boston’s freezing temps and endless snow…but barely — it took a red eye after two cancelled flights to get there. Yes, we enjoyed sunny days in the 80s and drank piña coladas on the beach, but we’re back, aren’t we? Like we’d EVER choose strolling through colorful old […]

I’m 38 and until last week had never been to the Mother Country. Tragic, right? Thanks to wonderful parents who flew from NC to watch the girls, I was able to crash Dave’s business trip and ya’ know….I didn’t want to leave. We spent most of the time in London but took the train to […]

My Big Girl, How can it be six years already since you birthed me into motherhood and a raw, completely vulnerable new love? Holding tiny new you, first grade seemed an eternity away. Yet here I am sitting in a house eerily quiet – no little one to make requests for this or that, ask […]

  Kelly Lorenz has marked time for us since our engagement session with her in 2004. Since then she’s become so much more than our photographer. Today she’s my photography Jedi Master (the force is strong with her), my sanity (“get over here for a playdate or I might jump off the roof!”), my accomplice […]

Brenna started Irish step dancing this year with her good friend Katie. Irish step is kinda a thing here in the Boston area and taken very seriously by some talented young women we saw perform at the school recital this past weekend. I’ve learned that each school has its own colors and Celtic insignia. We […]