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I
am sitting in my room @ 2 pm on Sunday. The last few days have been so
funny with the weather. Friday, cool but then insane storms and thunder,
buckets and buckets of rain… Saturday, a blizzard blows through with
the high of 30 degrees and sheets of snow, layers upon layers… and
then today, 60 is the high with sunshine… what the blazes!!??

1.
At birth I was named Laura Noel, and later it was changed to Maggie
Jeanne. My name means “Pearl.” It is the only rare gem or precious
“stone” that is formed by life (a living thing: clam). I am full of
life… how ironic.

Everytime
I am in this house i get great revelations… I had a simple one about a
week ago and it came back today too… it goes something like this….

I
am in the kitchen, yes men, I am cooking. I am with 2 little kids and
we are making a welcome home cake for their parents who have been gone
for 4 days. I am also in the process of making them breakfast, they want
cinnamon rolls… I realize that already this morning I have had
yogurt, some cereal, chai tea, an english muffin, and im about to eat a
cinammon roll…hmmm yummy, so good.

 

I have quite a lot to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day. After pounding tons of food, feeling like my belly might be full like “twins,” I sat downstairs, just talking with the women of the house about family and God and literally, just our lives. Where we’ve been, where we’ve come, everything in […]

I
am sitting on a couch in a house i call “the glass house.” it belongs
to a family that i nanny for and they have 2 beautiful kids. tonight was
a sleepover, in which i had not 2 but 4 kids… all under the age of 5.
it is 1035, and i have been here since 330… a little over 7 hours.

This past Mother’s Day was spent in Dover, DE with my Mom, my Dad, my brothers Zach and Sam, and my mommom. 

Out in the woods. Kissing. Being oh so sweet. Tyler and Elaine’s beloved session is up on the blog! I’m sure they will make you smile… maybe not as much as they were!

The Scheinbergs are such an amazing family! I’ve known them for years, and I just love being around them! View this post to see some of the favorites from the day of photographing out at McDonogh. 

The Allee family had a cold winter shoot in downtown old Ellicott City. 

Last summer, my little brother Zach, who is not so little anymore, proposed to my friend Lauren, up in beautiful Holderness, New Hampshire, while our family was on vacation. Every summer for as long as I can remember, my family has taken the hike by car up to New Hampshire. It is where we have […]