That first Christmas before we had Hudson was one of my most favourite holidays ever.  I was seven months pregnant with him and while I knew that celebrating Christmas with our own children would be more magical than I ever imagined…I also knew that our final Christmas with just the two of us was something […]

When I first started photography, I was just so excited about everything I was learning that I didn’t stop to consider much else.  I had felt creatively caged for so long…and then – all the sudden – I was making something.  And I loved it.  But I was also making something that I had never […]

Do you remember what it was like on the first day of school?  Dressing up in your new clothes…packing all of your new binders into your backpack…anxiously anticipating who you’ll share a class with?  I always loved the first day of school…but it always made me really nervous too. Starting a new career [especially when […]

Every year for Christmas, we get scratch tickets in our stocking!!  All of the Smyth kids sit around the dining room table – silver shavings scattered everywhere – waiting to see if any of us are going to win big!  I never do!!!  I don’t really win contests at all really.  I’m okay with it […]