There are so many traditions we create as families; from how we celebrate holidays to how we start each morning and end each day. Whether grand or simple, traditions connect us and form our identity. Each tradition creates a thread in our fabric that our children will tug on each time they re-tell the story, reminisce with their siblings, repeat with their own children.
“It’s peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time…”
Tagged: childhood, family photography, Halloween, photography
Last year we hosted a Friendsgiving to raise money and awareness for No Kid Hungry. This year the girls got dressed up and turned plain, white buttercream cakes into towering artistic creations. While the girls decorated the moms donated. Every $10 raised can feed a child up to 100 meals.
Tagged: childhood, No Kid Hungry, photography
Soaring to the uppermost reaches of the National Building Museum, Hive is built entirely of more than 2,700 wound paper tubes, a construction material that is recyclable, lightweight, and renewable. The tubes vary in size from several inches to 10 feet high and will be interlocked to create three dynamic interconnected, domed chambers. Reaching 60 feet tall, the installation’s tallest dome features an oculus over 10 feet in diameter. The tubes feature a reflective silver exterior and vivid magenta interior, creating a spectacular visual contrast with the Museum’s historic nineteenth-century interior and colossal Corinthian columns.
– http://www.nbm.org
“Here comes summer
School is out, oh happy days
Tagged: beach, Chespeake Beach, Maryland, summer, travel
To celebrate Penny’s 8th birthday we hosted a cooking party with chef Wendi James of Rutabaga Sweets. The menu included handmade cheese ravioli, fresh tomato sauce and garlic bread. The kids were attentive and focused and created some delicious food! Penny loves to cook, what a treat it was to share this with her friends. 
Tagged: birthday party, canon photography, childhood, cooking, cooking class, photography
There is no shortage of guilt as a mother and not making homemade meals every weeknight is one of the many sources. But to my children “making them delicious food” is something I do best and often and for this I was rewarded to a changing of roles. Each of them donned their homemade chef hat and transformed our kitchen into a restaurant for Mother’s Day.
Oliver “flippin’ eggs” omelette master
Jesus said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
– 1 Corinthians 11:24
Tagged: childhood, photography, storytelling photography
“Mommy can I do the dishes? Don’t worry, I know how to do it,” she says.
Tagged: childhood, domestic chores, everyday, photography
