About Us

photo by Teegan Photography

The Short Version

Making Me Cranky is the sasstastic family blog of professional photographer Maggie, her web designy husband Josh, and their scampish 3 year old, Eleanor. It features beautiful photography, tips on happy, healthy, designful living, made-up words, and hilarious poop stories.

The Long Version

Hi there! We’re the Keegan Gross family (no hyphen please), Maggie, Josh, and Eleanor! I, Maggie, write most of the content here at Making Me Cranky. Josh does all the web design, other tech stuff, and once in a while writes a hilarious post after a sufficient amount of badgering from me. He’s the real writer in the family, but he’s also the laziest member of the family.

We both grew up and still live in the suburbs of Los Angeles and both attended UCLA. We got married August 7, 2004. And had our first baby, of hopefully many, Eleanor, on December 7, 2007.

Eleanor is the love of our life, a constant source of happiness and hilarity. She’s also the major source of all the Crankiness in our life. At the end of the day we can’t wait until her bedtime, and as soon as she is asleep we miss her and want to wake her up to play! She’s loud, wild, stubborn, fiercely independent and very sweet!

Josh is pretty much a total nerd. He designs websites part time and has a day job in higher education. He enjoys cooking, reading, listening to podcasts and annoying me. He’s also a bit of a complainer and adds that certain special pessimistic touch to our family to balance out my obnoxiously sunny and optimistic attitude.

I used to be pretty punk rock, but am now a little less punk and a little more Martha Stewart. After graduating from UCLA I went to Pepperdine Law School. Right now I work part-time as an Estate Planning attorney. The rest of my waking hours (when I’m not mothering or housekeeping) are spent on my passion for photography. I launched my portrait photography business, Maggie Keegan Gross Photography in early 2010, and I couldn’t be happier getting to do what I love!

We hope you enjoy reading about our hectic life, or you know, whatever I feel like writing about!