About the Author

   My name is Emily Wilson and welcome to my blog.

   I am an introverted artistic person who has been on a continual journey of self-discovery. I use reading as a major source of knowledge and have read books such as Eat Pray Love, The Last Lecture, Five Love Languages, and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I also read for pleasure and my preferred genre is historical romance. I have explored scrapbooking and I work on-and-off on a scrapbook of my daughter’s first year of life. I love animals and so I have a golden retriever mix named Snook that I love taking for walks around my small town, and a black cat named Dash, whose name explains it all.

   I am a wife and mother. I have been with my husband since I was in high school (just celebrated 9 years!). We moved in together right after graduation and saved up a down payment for a house with income from our burger flipping careers. During that time I also went to college and earned a “degree in nothing” as I like to call it, althought the actual title is AA in General Studies.

   We bought a house and got married in 2006 and a year later were blessed with our daughter, Natalie. My role as a mother took over as the most important role in my life at that point and so I became a stay-at-home mother for the next two years. My life consisted of balancing “my time” with the high needs of my new baby daughter. I also discovered I had inherited a new role as the all-purpose “go to” person for whoever needed someone to watch their kids while they “did this quick” or had to “go run there”. I quickly learned that if you didn’t work, then everyone thought you were available because you were thought to be just sitting around the house all day.

   During a rough patch in our marriage (and because of the crashing economy), I found myself needing some kind of income in the fall/winter of 2009-10. I ended up stumbling onto a job as a part-time newborn photographer. I started that job in January 2010 and found out I loved it! I worked as the sole photographer at one hospital for 4 months until my supervisor was let go and I was surprised with a promotion, a raise, and a transfer to the nearby hospital. So I had to start training new hires to help with all the babies (since babies are born 7 days a week and I really couldn’t work every single day at two different hospitals!)

   So my job is to take professional fine art portraits of the newborn babies the day after they are born. I go to each mothers room in the hospital with a portable studio and take professional portraits with different backgrounds, outfits, props, and special shots with mommy or in daddy’s hands. I enhance the pictures and then sell different packages, prints, announcements, etc depending on what each parent wants to purchase (so yes, I am also a “salesperson”!). 

   So I hope that explains where I am coming from, the type of person I am, and what you can expect to read about in my blog.  I write about what I know. Marriage…. Money…. and Messes.