Linh Dao Smooke

Mama-in-chief. Runs HackerNoon. Eats butter plain.

Moments.

9 months of carrying you 🫶🤰🏻
2 weeks of sibling love 🥰 Norah’s soaking up her role as a “double” big sister, in her own words. Every morning she wakes up at 6:50 to spend an extra few moments with baby May. And Ira’s suddenly grown up over night- he loo
Introducing: May Hazel Smooke, born at 8:52pm Jan 19 in Room 6 of Vail Hospital, the same room her big sister made her debut 8 years prior 🥹 Her delivery was so smooth and fast, taking a total of 15 mins pushing, 4 hours of epidural, and 8 hours of
#unpublished today 1- mom, dad, me at somebody’s birthday circa 1993/1994? I had strong jawline like Ira 😆 2- me, my family and @gramgandh in San Francisco summer of 2011! We visited the city as part of our Fellowship in Monterey, CA. Pretty
Can’t believe it’s been 1 year since David pulled this HUGE surprise in the form of an asking ceremony, kneeling down in front of my parents to ask for my hands 😆!!!! Link to our full video is in my bio 🙈 Happy 1 year anniversary to th
First week of school (4 days!) potty trains him more successfully than the 7 weeks prior combined!!! 😅😮‍💨🙌 He loves learning but doesn’t remember anybody’s name yet 😆 My new favorite part of everyday is walking him to and from sc
Happy New Year 2025 🍾🎉🥂 it’s my parents’ 35th wedding anniversary 🥹 look at their dapper 80s/90s fashion!!!!!
🤰🏻🤝🎄34 weeks! I made it to 39 and 38 with norah and ira respectively ✨ having a feeling that this baby (or maybe me this 3rd time around) is less patient 🥹
This Thanksgiving I’m thankful for: beautiful Colorado foliage and winter wonderland that we get to call home; @smookewalks’s cooking, which he certainly seemed to have inherited from Diane, whose thanksgiving feast de👏li👏vers every yea
Today in babies don’t keep 🥹 Ira aged 1 month and Ira aged 2 years and a half 🥹
reuploading the full letter since the previous one lost 2 important slides. I guess that’s just how a day like today goes. Fractured. Full of missteps. Confusions. All part of the process, i guess… #election2024
I didn’t expect to have to find personal therapy through words again almost exactly 8 years later. But here we are again 💔 #election2024
it was picture day at ballet so she has a full face of makeup on….Adding my vintage pearl earrings, clutch and glasses and she’s suddenly 17 😆
Happy Halloween from mustached Fear, pregnant Anxiety, happy Sadness and much too happy Anger 😆😆 #halloween2024 #insideout2
#unpublished today features a lot of sunset and sunrise with my most favorite people 🫶 and a healthy dose of Ira’s early days when my parents were here and us trying to balance giving norah enough attention
an abundance of fall 🍁🍂🫶 Đến hẹn lại lên, mùa thu Colorado đẹp sửng sốt 🥹
#unpublished today 1- me at 3ish, looking totally like Ira. this was at my grandparents house, where I spent most of my childhood 2- eating gelato with David in Milan. I remember thinking his shirt was too green 😆 3,4- norah playing circa November&

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Linh Dao Smooke chatting with Chris Lustrino about the future of HackerNoon