YOU Are The Holiday Magic | Boca Raton Family Photographer

December 22, 2025 in family, Personal

I’ve been seeing a lot of videos that show Christmas in the 90s.

They suck you in with the nostalgia of it all. Bing Crosby in the background, while showing incandescent lights that are impossible to find these days.

You can almost smell the cookies baking in the oven, while mom is watching TV in the kitchen.

You feel a pit in your stomach.

Why is that feeling gone? Where did it go?

You hear other adults talk about getting back to that feeling; searching for something that no longer exists.

How does a feeling just disappear?

I’ve been longing for that feeling for over half my life. It’s been decades since I experienced that magic.

Then, I became a mom.

I dreamed of giving my daughter the Christmas’s that I grew up with. I envisioned how I could give her the same whimsy.

It hit me.

My mom was the magic.

Wellington Family Photographer

September 16, 2024 in family, maternity

Something I really love about this session is that you can almost feel the warmth of the sun when looking through the photographs. It just feels like home. There is light and laughter and so much love. They truly never stopped laughing and playing.

This session celebrated the joy of their family, the beauty of motherhood, and their deep connection to nature.

SSRIs Saved Me As a Mother - Boca Raton Family Photographer

August 26, 2024 in maternity, Personal, boudoir

This photograph, of me, will always be my favorite from that time.

This is so much of what motherhood has felt like to me. Everything is a foggy memory because I was in constant fight or flight. Something that might seem like a normal inconvenience would send me into a full spiral. I would look around at other mothers and say, “How are you enjoying this? Why did you choose to have another baby and do this to yourself all over again? What’s wrong with me? Am I ever going to enjoy motherhood?”

I wasn’t someone who fell in love with her baby right when they put her on my chest. It took me almost two years to feel that for her. Yes, I had love for her and would do anything for her, but she felt like a stranger to me. I couldn’t let her in because I was actively fighting motherhood every day.

Gulf Stream Family Photographer

July 31, 2024 in family

We spent time in their rooms while they showed me their favorite toys. Mom said that some of those toys hadn’t seen the light of day in about a year. There is something deeper in the meaning of these sessions. Having someone pay attention to you as a family, take the time to document it slowly, show you how important you are as a family, but also individuals, and allowing you to explore the past and present. These kids had someone asking about what brought them joy and wanting to photograph that. They had the chance to feel seen by someone other than their parents. They had the opportunity to feel seen WITH their parents. So often we are the ones doing all of the work and when you have someone else see how special your family is, there is so much honor in that.

My daughter was the death of the weakest parts of me and the birth of the strongest

May 14, 2024 in family, Personal

I used to think that having a child would be the death of me.

In a way, it was.