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 […]

After Disney we spent four days on Ormond Beach with Dave’s parents, aunt and her husband. It was overcast and chilly but it didn’t stop the girls from playing in the waves each morning and, though I shiver to remember it, these warm my heart.                     […]

We spent a very non-traditional but totally-magical Thanksgiving Day at Disney World. This was the girls’ first visit. While we had the trip booked since June, they only knew we were vacationing in Florida. In the Orlando airport we posed them in front of a big Mickey mural and told them we had a surprise. […]