Kati Dimoff is a Portland-based photographer. She contributes to You Are My Wild , a weekly portrait project that brings together 14 photographers to document how they see their children. Check out her personal site here.

My daughter is 6 years old. She is endlessly creative. Sometimes it feels like our whole house has turned into her craft room! My son is almost four. He is so confident and has such a big heart.

The biggest challenge I faced as a first time mom was time-management. Where does all my time go?! I have a to-do list that will take me years if I’m lucky!

I don’t think becoming a mom has changed who I am. I do think it made me more of who I am, if that makes sense… All the ways I’ve always been have been intensified. My worries and anxieties, my hopes and joys.

I mostly go to friends for parenting advice. Honestly, I go to anyone I can talk to without feeling like I’m a failure (as most parenting books tend to make me feel). You know it when you have it… that friend who is appropriately self-deprecating without actually being too negative. But at the same time, does things just enough right, without being too amazing that you feel bad about yourself in comparison!

My favorite thing about being a parent is watching little people that I made grow into their own real selves… and of course, naptime snuggles 🙂

I’m not the greatest blogger, in fact, I rarely blog. It always seems like I run out of time. But as a photographer, I thought it was important to show my recent work, so I started my blog in 2010. I mentioned that to-do list that will take me years… blogging is somewhere on it. At this point, I’m mostly putting recent work up on Facebook (facebook.com/kdimoffphotography) and adding to the gallery on the website. And of course, I post weekly as part of You Are My Wild.

I love photographing other moms. I love showing moms how beautiful they are when they are loving their families.

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