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Hi friends! I'm Jill and I'm so glad you stopped by.
I'm a wedding and portrait photographer based out of Chicago and Central Illinois. Grab a coffee (or my favorite, a coke!) and take a look around this site at the beautiful people who let me tell their stories through images, as well as a little peek into our everyday life!
As a mother of 2 toddlers, parenting is the main thing I do. It takes up more time than anything else, and is my most important job. Because of that, I always feel like I should share more about parenting, and motherhood, here, but I always struggle because I feel like I am just beginning. Like there […]
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August 11, 2016
As a mom nowadays (always?), we are always put up to various societal pressures. A lot of those pressures are things we put on ourselves. And I try really hard not to buy into all of it, because truly, I think we are all just doing the best we can! My motto is that I […]
November 5, 2015
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I have always hesitated to write on this topic that is such a huge portion of my life…that of being a mom. It is my very favorite role in life, and also the very hardest. I think I struggle to write about it here for 2 reasons…the first being that I am just so not an authority […]
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October 21, 2015
I’ll just call a spade a spade: for parents, naptime is a GODSEND. Yes, I do sometimes spend naptime scrolling through sweet pics of my kids on my phone. Yes, there has been a few days we have just been waiting for them to wake back up either to head to an activity or just […]
February 11, 2020
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This is another Marriage Monday post that also sits in between that series and my “Mamahood” series, but it is something that has really been on my heart lately. In part because we are heavily in the 2 or 3 kids debate, which I have shared here before…and also because a lot of people we care about […]
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January 22, 2017
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