Today I would like to tell you a little about what I was up to this summer (which will also explain my hiatus from the blog). I was lucky to spend all of June and July in Arusha, Tanzania working to help develop a Literacy Through Photography program there. Literacy Through Photography, or LTP, is […]
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My youngest child, sweet Ana Elisa (whose adoption I chronicled last year and, also, the subject of my very last blog entry:) recently decided to style her own hair. She pulled the same move her sister had when she was also near the same age. She snuck some scissors into the bathroom and decided to […]
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Was lovely to see the new issue of Premier Baby Magazine, which always features our images … this time including a sweet story about little Ana Elisa coming home from Ecuador. It was also particularly heartening, too, as this story runs exactly four years after the last story they published about my gorgeous Caleb coming […]
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We celebrated Caleb’s 5th Birthday all week, and he was all smiles nearly the entire time. A few photographs of my lovely boy and his sweet friends…. Ana Elisa: Always up for a party Wholly disinterested in sleep Caleb’s best *boy* friend And if he’s going to have to be best friends with a girl, […]
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Awww, I came across this photograph that I took not too long ago, and it just made me smile. These children of mine!! (Or at least these children I have been gifted with, for as much as these little spirits can ever be ours…) Oh my goodness, I do love them so.
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I just had to share this photograph of Ana Elisa, all dressed up in her brand new Christmas dress, a gift from her grandparents (all four of whom she had the pleasure to meet just last week). Oh – and when I say her transition has been amazing? What I mean is that the girl […]
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I just wanted to wish every single person on this earth a happy holiday season!! 2007 has been a wonderful year, and we want to offer our genuine gratefulness to all of our clients, to our friends (who are very often also our clients or maybe it is our clients who very often become our […]
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I am so unbelievably proud to announce the formal completion of our adoption of Ana Elisa Anita Maria (Vasquez Sarmiento) Lackey. Oh. My. Goodness. What a beautiful thing. You know that feeling, after you finish an event of some great physical endurance – whatever that means to you, surviving a holiday with extended family, racing […]
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We arrived in Ecuador about a month ago. So much has happened in that time, it is simply not possible to summarize. The best part of everything, of course, is this beautiful child, the reason we are here. And it won’t be that long before I can show what I mean by beautiful 🙂 But […]
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…admiring one of my favorite images of all time as a 28×38 custom canvas gallery wrap hanging in my home 🙂 This piece is particularly dear to me because it’s a photograph of my daughter at the beach when she was just 3 years old and still terrified of the ocean. After a week at […]
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Woah! It’s crazy that this is true, but this is true… I have been so consumed with this intense & beautiful adoption, this intense & beautiful election, and my intense & beautiful client work catch up, that something huge happened this week…and I kinda missed it: My book released!!! WOW!!! The official book release date […]
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Like many people in America (heck, i can say with some current authority – like many people around the world!), I have been anxiously awaiting this day. Election Day!! I am so excited for the results of today’s voting! I was thrilled to be able to cast my early vote before leaving the country and […]
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This past week or so has been a whirlwind, to say the least. So much has happened, it’s nearly impossible to detail it all. But we’ve received so many unbelievably gracious and kind-hearted messages by email, facebook, twitter and ichat. And some actual phone calls, too. Wow. What an outpouring of sweet feeling – thank […]
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warning: grab a nice beverage while reading this post. It’s a bit long … but, i don’t think, wastefully so 🙂 Some of you may already know about this, but a pretty significant amount of you will not. That I can not tell you all one at a time, I apologize. But things seem to […]
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For all those who are en route or about to travel out to Bald Head Island for learnfest – we are quite excited for this week’s workshop and so appreciate all the efforts you are making to study with me, Laura Novak, Lena Hyde and Audrey Woulard. We know it’s a lot of time, effort […]
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