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Welcome to my blog! I started it in the spring of 2008 when I found out I was pregnant with our first child, mainly so that my friends and family could hear all the gory details about my pregnancy.  Since those early days I've expanded to blog about quite a smorgasbord of things, including but certainly not limited to photography, secondary infertility, parenting, sewing and random tidbits.

I'm Pennsylvania born and bred, yet somehow ended up living in the land of the Boston Red Sox and married to a Yankees fan... I met my husband on Match.com (yes, it works- if you're single and don't want to be give it a shot!) in February of 2005 and we got married in October of 2006.  My husband and I have a little boy who was born in November of 2008, a baby girl born in August of 2012 and two dogs, an English Springer Spaniel named Socks and a Miniature Dachshund named Gabby.  Until the end of 2012 I was both a stay at home mom AND a working mom- working four days a week in and out of the office.  With the new year came a new career for me and I'm now adjusting to life as a full-time stay at home mom!  Recently I've started up my own photography business- visit my website at emilylebaronphotography.com!

We're constantly in the middle of renovating and redecorating the house we bought in October 2007. As for hobbies, I'm into photography, sewing, baking, craft projects, digital scrapbooking, Martha Stewart, reading and travel, depending on my mood... So you can expect some posts on here about any and all of the above- a regular old hodge-podge of stuff! And if you're wondering where Emskyrooney came from- when I was little my dad used to call me Emskyrooney-Girl. The nickname stuck and some of my friends even call me Emsky!

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February: What Shadow Looks Like

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Cote D'Azur Sunhat

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