Monthly archives: June, 2019

How To Create a Safe Space for Babies

In 2015, we broke ground on my husband’s dream home.  He spent literally years designing this house.  From the precise placement of our bedroom windows so we could watch the sunrise to the size of the dining room calculated perfectly to fit the table he crafted out of barnwood found on the property.  While he …

Breakfast In Bed Ideas for Father’s Day

My health conscious husband eats the same thing for breakfast every morning: 1 cup of oatmeal with an oversized mug of coffee, a splash of milk plus 1 tsp. of brown sugar. He has been eating this same breakfast every day since we first met fourteen year’s ago, and mixes things up on alternating weekends …

Backyard Wedding Ideas

It’s officially summer wedding season! I got married on a hot, humid and cloudy August day on New York City’s Long Island, where I practically sweated through my wedding gown while taking outdoor shots for our wedding album.  We then partied with our family and friends in the air-conditioned comfort of a bedecked rental hall, …

How To Create a Calm and Cozy Nursery for Baby Boy

As the days draw closer to the bitter sweet celebration of our baby’s first birthday (bitter only because I’ve loved his babyhood so much), I linger a little longer rocking him, pause more to watch him crawl as he pads across the carpet and soak up the fleeting time we have left before our son, …