Her View From Home - Motherhood, Marriage, Faith and Grief

“Old” Seems Less Old the Older I Get

Growing up, my grandparents hosted birthday parties that involved all of my dad’s aunts and uncles gathering around the kitchen table with a deck…

Real Life Maternity Photos Are Beautiful Too

Baby, Motherhood

Real Life Maternity Photos Are Beautiful Too

As a maternity and newborn photographer, my feed is full of radiant moms and seemingly tidy spaces in the families’ homes we work in. We always…

Having Babies and Toddlers Is Exhausting—but So, So Sweet

Baby, Kids, Motherhood, Toddler

Having Babies and Toddlers Is Exhausting—but So, So Sweet

I took the girls to one of our favorite coffee shops last week and all around me were parents of babies and toddlers. Their little ones ran about in…

Baby, Motherhood, Toddler

You Used To Fit In My Lap

Hi Love, Remember when you could fit comfortably across my lap in this chair? I do. We’ve done a lot of sleeping and feeding and reading and…

Faith, Grief, Loss

Grief Is Persistent But God Is Faithful

The loss of a parent doesn’t just sting, it leaves you with an irreplaceable hole in your heart. It’s been two years since my loving…

3 Common Phrases to Avoid Saying to Your Kids (and What To Say Instead)

Kids, Motherhood

3 Common Phrases to Avoid Saying to Your Kids (and What To Say Instead)

Learning to love yourself is hard work. I did not grow up loving myself. Instead, I always felt inadequate, and I felt the need to change myself to…

Cancer, Grief, Loss

l Will Never Stop Missing My Sister

It might be 16 years too late to properly depict the depressive senses that engulfed my whole being when I lost my only sister Aurora to colon cancer…

When You’re a Mom of Teens, You Never Pass up a Chance to Spend Time with Them

Motherhood, Teen

When You’re a Mom of Teens, You Never Pass up a Chance to Spend Time with Them

When your kids are little, nothing rings more true than the saying that the days are long but the years are short. You know the time is fleeting even…