i don’t normally ask you to sit for me. but i wanted to take a picture of you wearing your crown of daisies. you agreed but only with strict stipulations. the only thing i could control was where you sat. the rest had to be all you. this is how you live your life. you are my beautiful renegade.
don’t you worry little dude. she wishes they came in her size too.
On October 18th, my daughter was born and I became the mother of three children. Hundreds of miles away, on the same day, another baby girl was born and another woman added the third child to her family. We were complete strangers at that time, but our love of photography and family brought us together. We started to have a conversation about motherhood with images, because we tell stories with our cameras. Since some tales are so similar, and some are not, we decided to collaborate and share a photo a week from a normal day as a mother to three.
“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.” – Mary Jean Irion
yesterday afternoon as we pulled away from the carline, you said, “i made a friend today. i smiled at her and she smiled back at me. she has the best smile. she told me not to worry because she would be my friend. when she said that my heart felt so happy i didn’t know what to say. i was just speechless.” i know of nothing that makes my heart happier than sharing in the triumphs of my children as they navigate all these uncharted waters. absolutely nothing.
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