Allison French
Allison French is the mother of Ellie, Tristan, Judah and Lucy, living in south Kansas City with her hubby of eight years, Chris. After teaching elementary school in Blue Valley for six years, she established her photography business, Allison Corrin Photography and specializes in newborn and lifestyle photography. Passionate about soaking up the sweetness in the simple, she muses over the dirty diapers, noisy time-outs, piled-up dishes, read alouds, never-ending pile of laundry, and other everyday lessons of motherhood in her personal blog here. A good day for Allison would include getting up while it’s still dark (and quiet), a good cup (or two…or three…) of creamed-up coffee, reading one of the (at least three) books she’s always in the middle of, a little blogging, followed by a long run or dancing at her Jazzercise class and concluded with baking something sweet with her own sweetums … and then promptly chowing down.
Perfect Party Planning Made Painless: Celebrating in Style Made Simple
Because party planning in all its consuming, tedious and expensive potential can quickly zap all the celebration from my brain, I recently consulted three Kansas City party planning experts for their input on the...
Clean and Natural Living: Simple and Safe Recipes for the Mindful Care of Your...
It can feel overwhelming to research and scrutinize all the product ingredients we use on a daily basis. With all the proverbial plates moms spin, this task is next to impossible - and with...
Matchy Matchy is Out: Taking Family Pictures from Stressful to Stellar
I’m sure we can all share the stories of family pictures gone wrong. I once showed up to a shoot to have the white-faced momma climb out of the car apologizing before her foot...
Meet Kansas City’s Mompreneurs: Busy Mom Cupcakes
It’s bright, it’s colorful and sweetness is in the air. Beth is busy with a million things to do, and yet radiating. Everything of hope is within these walls, everything of planning and reconfiguring...
Meet Kansas City’s Mompreneurs: Urbavore
It's a rare thing to make a belief system not only a way of living, but a means of leaving - and, yet, it seems if there was a way to do it, it...
Meet Kansas City’s Momprenuers: SwimZip
Navigating my way through markers and fire trucks and easels and gummy snacks, it could have been any sort of playdate. Yet, as we sat for awhile at her kitchen table surrounded by proud...
Meet Kansas City’s Mompreneurs: Modern Makers
It was happenstance research for her landscape architecture firm that led her to stumble across a beautiful quilting blog, Tallgrass Prairie Studio. At the time, Elizabeth Nelson was still a landscape architect in title,...
Why Water Babies are Smarter Babies
This summer included two major milestones in the French household. For the first time... ever ...my children enjoyed playing in the water, beyond and outside the limited scope of our household bathtub, anyway. Not only this,...
Meet Kansas City’s Mompreneurs: The Yellow Peony
When I first walked into Haley’s creative space, the inspiration was nearly breathable. With her baby bump leading the way, she guided me through her home to the back room she had transformed into...
Meet Kansas City’s Mompreneurs: Ampersand Design Studio
Ampersand Design Studio - “a place where inspiration meets happy,
where color and pattern come to play."
This vibrant motto encompasses such a fresh promise of cheerful liveliness - everything I quickly learned the creators behind...
Trader Joe’s to the Rescue: a Busy Mom’s Top Trader Joe’s Picks
My husband and I had a night out to ourselves recently. Looking forward to it all day, I cleaned up, may have donned some lipstick, even put on a (clean!) skirt, and after sneaking...
A Teacher’s Top Three Tips for Summer Learning
No more teachers, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks ...
As a former elementary teacher, I know full well how this rings true in many households come summer's arrival, the hooting, the hollering, the celebration...
Lucy Lynn’s Birth Story
As “stretching” as pregnancy can be for me, I love labor. I crave the details of birth.
Within days of holding my precious bundle, I was reliving her arrival, the hormones and sleep deprivation leaving...
Understanding Your DSLR Camera
There’s nothing like grabbing your camera to capture your little one’s darling food-covered face only to realize it’s totally dark once you actually take the picture. Or wanting to snap their awesome underwear and...
A Mother’s Love: a Story of Friendship and Sacrifice through Surrogacy
After nine months of heartburn, she assumed he must have a head of dark hair. She already knew he was ornery, but that was to be expected.
She knew when he would get feisty and...
