Picture me

My name is Ewa.

I was born and raised in Poland. At the age of 26, I came to the U.S. for a cultural exchange called Au-Pair.

I met my husband, got married, had two daughters a few dogs, got divorced, moved a few times, you know… life.

Now I am a single mamma, homeschooling my 11 and 13-year-old girls, living a simple life, and dreaming big.

I started this blog shortly after getting married and having our first daughter, Linka to let my creative juices flow and to keep myself occupied during sleepless nights (many of them while raising two tiny babies).

This blog was the inspiration for starting my photography business in 2012.  Within the next year the business took over my life, and this blog was paused.

For years now I’ve been dabbling with bringing this blog back to life but every time I try to do it I realize I just don’t have the time or the brain power to manage yet another project. So, yeah, I come here once in a while, change a thing or two and then leave for a few years. LOL

This blog has been a big part of my life since my kids were born and I don’t dare to close it because of it. 🙂 Maybe when I am a grandma I will have the time to get back to it. As for right now, it is what it is!

If you want to know how to make pierogi from scratch or what’s kisiel and faworki, you are in a perfect place 🙂

and definitely, I am a NIKON girl!

If you want to contact me you can find me on www.maytheartbewithyou.com

This is my short “life story” in pictures:

Many Many Many Many years ago (I’m the blue one):

Came to the US in 2007 as an Au Pair to the best host family ever:

Here and there in U.S.A

😉


Had a bicycle accident. Fractured many vertebrae and spent 6 months as a HOT Robo AuPair.

After that I stopped liking bicycles and moved to the back seat of a motorcycle. I think it’s much safer over there. At least I don’t have to steer.

I’ve established a friendship with one doggy!

and it’s owner 😉

… and my belly had grown a little bit bigger…

and bigger…

and bigger

Finally our” No 1″ joined us, said: gee ! for the first time, and can’t stop smiling since!

Enjoying every single moment with my Little One.

Definitely a breastfeeding mamma 🙂


Loving coffee – all the time, every time, day and night time, etc time.

Loving reflections like loving coffee…

and my tattoo which I don’t see very often. In 2017 I got another one, but on that later… 

Doing yoga in the kitchen between making breakfast for my little one and morning coffee for myself! Every moment is good… .

My growing belly for the second time.

Most of our time we spent in the kitchen, baking, cooking, tasting 🙂

Meet our “No 2” who joined us in 2012.

and this is our newest addition to the family:

MORE UPDATES FROM OUR RECENT YEARS ARE COMING SOON… SO STAY UP TO DATE BY FOLLOWING THIS BLOG. THANK YOU! 

49 responses to “Picture me”

  1. Great site, and great pictures! I have to get my camera out now and read one of the several books I have that tell my have to use the thing – I keep getting confused with all the settings that are available 🙂

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    1. thank you! and thank you for stopping by! Did your son say “mama”, already 😉
      and I know that in the digital era the digital cameras can be very confusing, or very trappy (when you decide to stick only to “program” or “auto” mode). but actually it’s not that hard to lear the “manual” mode.
      If you need some advices don’t hesitate to ask 🙂 I’ll try to help 🙂
      hugs,

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  2. You seem like an uber cool chic! Great story!

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    1. 🙂 thanks for such a nice comment!

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  3. Enjoyed reading your story. Hope you continue to have lots of fun with your husband and your daughter. Children certainly change your life.

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  4. Hello…..
    It was so nice to read your words..and look at the amazing photo’s through your eyes..
    will be stopping in more often

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    1. Hi Cindy! Great that you stopped by! Hugs from my corner!

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  5. What a wonderful story you have! Wow. I was an au pair in Madrid many moons ago at 19. Good to know you had such a good experience. And now that I see you’re behind the lens constantly, I realize you must have many cameras! You’re a professional! I really like this page! 🙂
    Made me smile.

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    1. Jennifer, thank you so much for your words. Indeed I have had a few cameras in my life. Started with old Russian film only camera (called Zenit). My first digital was Nikon D40, after that I had Nikkon D80 and now I have Nikkon D5000. Have dreams about better one, but for now it’s working perfect for me.

      Have a wonderful weekend!
      Hugs from my corner!

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  6. Your pictures were AWESOME…I had to look through them twice.

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    1. Thank You so much, Donna 🙂

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  7. Donn— is that you mom? 🙂
    I sent my mom your way! ha!

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  8. Your photos are really gorgeous!! I love the bell shots…so precious 🙂

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  9. You are beautiful and your photos are fantastic. 😀

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    1. awww… it’s so sweet of you. thank you so much for you comment!

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  10. Bardzo orginalna ta strona, jakos nigdy tutaj nie zagladalam ! Zdjecia super ! Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Montrealu.

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    1. Dziękuję bardzo, Magda. Pozdrawiam również!

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  11. You are such a talented photographer.

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  12. Swietne fotografie!!! Jako swierzy ojciec napewno bede wracal tu gdy bede potrzebowal weny!!! 🙂
    Well done!!!

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    1. dzięki wielkie, Paweł, za takie miłe słowa.

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  13. I love your wonderful photos. They tell such a great story of your life. I especially love the one of you breastfeeding while cooking. That is true multi-tasking! Well done. :o)

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    1. thank you for stopping by, Linda!
      I am much better in telling stories in pictures then in words 🙂

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  14. There are many interesting photos. I enjoyed them very much. It looks you are very happy. Thanks for sharing.

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  15. I love the various pictures of the profession of your life. Very cool, very engaging, and great pictures! Adorable kids too.

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    1. thank you so much for stopping by and taking your time to look through those pictures 🙂

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  16. are you drinking mate in one of your pictures?

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  17. thanks for visiting carefreecomposition.com. i appreciate the blog like!

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  18. Very nice photos! I enjoyed your story!

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  19. Hi, I heard about you from Pawel http://photobypawelp.wordpress.com/. I’m so glad he shared your page with me. I’m Polish as well and I came to states as Au Pair in 2009 and stayed like you. I never had a chance to learn cooking (our Polish traditional things) so I’m so glad to find you and have the chance to try your recipes and share them with my American family. Everything looks so yummy. Great Blog. Have a great day 🙂

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    1. Cześć Ania!!!
      Super że mnie znalazłaś. Przejrzałam na szybko twojego bloga i masz świetne zdjcia. Odpisuję dopiero teraz, bo trochę zajęta byłam. Byliśmy na rodzinnej wycieczce, która tak naprawdę bardziej mnie wymęczyła niż odświerzyła, ale za to w końcu ruszyłam d*** z miejsca i miałam okazję pozwiedzać miejsca w których jeszcze nie byłam. Powoli wracam do siebie i do normalnego rytmu.
      Jak będziesz miała jakieś pytania co do przepisów czy czegokolwiek to jestem do dyspozycji 🙂
      Pozdrawiam serdecznie!

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  20. These are beautiful pictures! I especially love the b&w one of you carrying #2! And the babies’ pictures of course…just beautiful and so happy!

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    1. thank you, June! your kids are precious, as well!

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  21. Just found your blog. Love it. I’m following you now.

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    1. thank you so much, Kimberly.

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  22. There are many interesting photos. The big tree tunnel photo is stunning. I enjoyed them very much.

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    Beautiful like. 🙂

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  24. So totally loved this ‘about me’ Fabulous photography throughout and I especially love the ‘bump photos’…you are one incredibly talented photographer!!

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  25. Hey there

    Your Blog is lovely. Your photos exquisite. So glad I found you. I loved your 365 and wondered if you had heard of blipfoto. You may be interested in checking it out.

    Helen (also a Nikon girl!)

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  26. Świetna opowieść obrazkowa 🙂 Twoje zdjęcia są fantastyczne!
    Na jednym zdjęciu zauważyłam wolnowar (crockpot). Dużo gotujesz przy pomocy tego urządzenia? mam to w domu, ale jakoś dobrych przepisów brak 🙂

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    1. Hej Nina,

      dzieki za komentarz!
      Co do gotowania, tak, duzo z tego uzywam, ale malo mam przepisow na swoim blogu. Nie wiedziec dlaczego. Jeden przepis na ciasto jest tutaj

      za to moja znajoma ma cala stronke przeznaczona na gotowanie w tym garnku:
      popatrz sobie tutaj

      pozdrawiam serdecznie!

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  27. […] by Mom Photographer and her smoothies, I used a lot of these cucumbers in her cucumber/avocado/spinach […]

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  28. Nice , I stumbled on to this blog, and the photoes kept me seeing and reading the quotes, but the photo taken when you are focusing on to other subject is not mentioned, hope you do so, Keep it up

    R Swethadri, Mysore, India

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