Alabaster Photos

Name: Alabaster Photos
Address: 215 South Knowles, New Richmond, WI, 54017, US
Telephone: +17153098854

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Alabaster Photos is your maternity, newborn, and forever family photographer and educator. Photography Studio located in New Richmond, WI.

www.alabasterphotos.com
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10/27/2026

🍪 A LITTLE SUGAR, AND CHRISTMAS MAGIC! 🎅✨

Look what’s joining us for our Santa Minis on November 14th! ❤️

We’re so excited to be featuring the delicious cookies from Minty Apron in River Falls! They’re the sweetest little addition to your child’s Santa experience. 🤍

Your little ones will get to spend 15 minutes with Santa & Mrs. Claus, enjoy a special cookie, and make memories you’ll want to hold onto forever. ❤️🎄 And yes, parents are welcome in the photos, too!

🎅 Santa Minis include:
🍪 A special cookie from Minty Apron
❤️ 15 minutes with Santa & Mrs. Claus
📸 5 edited digital images
👨‍👩‍👧 Parents are welcome to join in the photos!

📅 November 14th — spots are limited!

💕 Comment “BOOK” to get the booking link, or email [email protected] for more information.

Let’s make a little Christmas magic together! ✨

10/25/2026

This afternoon, colored. I have several coloring books that I rotate through. My favorite medium to color with is colored pencils. Especially when they are sharp!

It was my five year old that actually inspired to do this today. This hobby has been put away for awhile. She came home from trunk or treat and got right to work on a coloring page that she got there.

She finished her picture with amazing detail. I began coloring in one of my mine, and she saddled up next to me and began to color with me. Eventually, she took over and I started in another book. We had the sweetest conversation.

My 5-year-old is not the easiest child. She has definitely tested me and grown grown my patients as a parent in ways that I never thought I needed? And so to be able to sit with her and actually color a page and watch her fill everything in. No space left. Uncolored is an amazing feat for her. She locked in and she got it done and it looks gorgeous and I think about how different my girls are.

My oldest isn't much into coloring. I have tried but she's never been really one for coloring with her though I get to read okay, I get to share my favorite pastime of waiting and now we're starting to read chapter books. This mama heart just loves getting to share that with her.

Parenting is hard. We all know that and all of us do it so differently. I love that I get to share these different things that I love and see them take bits and pieces of what I love and their dad loves and take it on as something that they love. It's one of those parenting moments that truly is undescribable.

What have you shared with your kids that they now love?

10/24/2026

I'm not entirely sure what day of the week it is. We're finally seeing the end of our second born's illness that started two Fridays ago. This time last Saturday we were headed to Urgent Care because it looked like she had a seizure and her temp was not coming down. We were sent home, it's just viral

By wed we were in er for Dehydration and UTI. Got her on antibiotics, the next morning she had 104 temp. With the help of MIL, the tubs, cold water, and cool air we got it back down. That was the worst.

Today she's still worn out and tired. I'm going to clean?? Maybe. We're at the weird middle age where we have littles we're caring for and the generation before us is getting ill, bodies failing them, falls, accidents, and so many other things. Then friends? Oh my!!

My husband total Aunts and Uncles total 21? And for the most part I hear about 4 or 5 then in a given day with health updates it seems. It feels like a roller coaster that just won't stop. You think you've seen the last drop and then it drops again.

I'm not sure who started this idea to have children later in life. Wait until you're ready. Wait until you have money. Wait until you've had time to enjoy your spouse. You have so much time. I was being told that at 35!!!!!

Now I am in the crazy middle life of perimenapause, I have a 5 and 7 year old, the economy is WORSE then it was in my 20's, and Im navigating taking care of the generation before me. Tell me, who thought it was a great idea to push the idea of waiting?

If you know me, I'm not patient. I don't like to wait. I was the kid who peeked at the Christmas presents and practiced my shocked face. But I waited for the kids because the wave of people telling me to wait said it would be easier. Well, it's not. And I'm not going to pretend it is and neither should you.

We need each other more than ever. Collectively, we have been through ENOUGH. This is wh I am not waiting to build whatever this is I am building for moms like me who need resources but don't even know wher to start. Do I have a plan? No and yes. But if you know me...that's never stopped me.

I am currently working on 2027 plans for this...collective? Comment 'me' if you want in.

10/23/2026

This week has been a roller coaster. I am so very grateful to end with recording a podcast with a friend.

If you haven't checked her out, you need to!

Kim Benoy

Such a great conversation, but I am not saying a peep about what we discussed. You'll need to wait for the episode drop ❤️

10/21/2026

🎅🍪 Santa, sweet treats & Christmas magic! 🎄✨

Our Santa Mini Sessions are coming up on November 14th, and I can’t wait to capture some Christmas magic with your family! ❤️

The sweetest little details make the best memories. 🥹🤎 A special cookie from Minty Apron out ofRiver Falls will be available to make your Santa visit even sweeter!

🎅 Santa & Mrs. Claus
📸 15-minute session
✨ 5 edited digital images
❤️ Parents welcome in photos
🍪 Cookie from Minty Apron available
🎁 Package upgrades available

📅 November 14, 2026

Let’s make a little Christmas magic! ❤️🎄

10/21/2026

Thank you for all the messages. We all know it helps immensely when we hear that we're not alone. Raising these little humans that will one day be adults paving their own path is NOT for the faint of heart. The compassionate heart? Yes. The mama bear heart? Yes, a thousand times yes. The heart that gets messy? You know it.

We woke up at six to our youngest having a temp of 104. I have known how to handle a lot, and have handled a lot. That number scared me. We acted fast in getting a cool bath and least getting her feet in the tub. She is our little mermaid but even mermaids have limits. She did not want that cold water. We managed to get a dose of Tylenol in her and just pressed cold washcloths on her. Gradually her temp came down. We got ibuprofen in and the next dose of antibiotics in. Then sleep.

The temp has been under 100 all day thankfully. Now we have to keep fluids up and eventually get her to eat something. When she has been awake she has been so sweet. I hope we are heading in the healing direction.

I hate feeling helpless. I have felt that way so many times as a mom. We bu**er on as my mother would say. Everyday we're thrown new challenges and making best judgements. There are times when I feel like I've got this and then others when I think why? Why is it so hard and knowing the right thing to do is hard?

But today. TODAY WE DID GOOD. I did it scared. I did it tired. And we'll do it again tomorrow. It seriously helps to get the messages and the texts about how she is. How I am. So many women have been in this exact situation and I won't be the last. Thank you for helping me not feel alone.

10/20/2026

I thought we were on the mend. The fever had broken Sunday.

Today seemed ok. Just a lotta coughing. She came with me to do errands. By mid-afternoon, a call to triage nurse, next in ER getting IV for dehydration and meds for the fever that reared again. Borderline UTI otherwise something viral. I am hoping that we have found the cause, getting the mess she needs, and we'll see my feisty, firey second born again.

This morning before we left I felt frustrated, angry, tired, all the things. How can I take care of myself and my kids and my house and have a great relationship with my husband and run a business and continue to heal from years of trauma. Oh and wait loose weight, exercise, have hobbies, take vacations, make sure kids are having experiences that help them grow, run to any extracurriculars, and live 20-30 from nearly everything because I wanted to make sure my husband got his dream of living in his childhood home that his grandfather built, and pay for gas, and so anything that might be fun for me, date nights (what r those??????)....

My mom once asked me three years ago why I am so worried and anxious all the time as a mom. How to explain the onslaught of demands of a mother in this day and age. Have you seen our socials and what it seems like mom's are able to to do? Their perfect life that seems to fall into place, and they seem to do and have everything we're told we want....

Hey mom, yea you, the one reading this post and maybe feeling like yea she sees me. I do. I know the loneliness. The demands. Your heart. You're a good mom. You're a wonderful woman. And those kids you have? They get to have you as their mom.

Connect with me if this resonates. I want to build a safe place to where we aren't all things and we don't have to be. I'm building something beautiful for you.

❤️❤️

10/19/2026

But that does mean I'm not exhausted. I find myself this morning at the end of patience. I want space. I want to go to another room without hearing 'MOM!!!!!!!'

Her fever finally broke yesterday around 2. Now it's resting to gain strength and keep getting the body back to normal. My youngest has always been the most demanding of me. She was diagnosed with Separation Anxiety Disorder around 3. I couldn't be more than 3 feet from her without her needing me, to know I was still there. We have worked through a lot of this but when she's sick it rears back up.

The anxiety she has is not only from having ADHD but also because of the trauma I endured when she was in utero. 5 months before she was born I no longer wanted to be in this world because I was trapped in an extremely abusive environment. I could not see a way out. How was I going to take care of these precious girls when I had no income. I was wholly dependent on my husband who also was trapped in the abusive environment and community.

We did leave. Together. A month and half after this precious soul was born. She felt every emotion, tremble, anger and fear I had while in utero. I was crushed when the diagnostian told me this. It is my job to protect her. The failure I felt was more immense than I can describe.

I have had A LOT of therapy and done A TON of work to be where I am today. Weekends like this use to break me to the point of spiraling for weeks. Now I am just so grateful that we are in our safe, loving home where I can take care of my children with my husband and not feel guilty. Not feel like I am failing. And actually know in my heart I am good mom. Even if I am impatient this morning.

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215 South Knowles
New Richmond, WI
54017

Telephone

+17153098854

Website

http://www.alabasterphotos.com/

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