10/10/2019
Couldn’t say it any better!!
To my clients who are mothers, an important message from my heart to yours...
Today I was THAT MOM. All I wanted was beautiful photos of my girls and their daddy in front of the mountains and foliage. I’ve been dreaming about these since before my youngest was even here. I had their dresses set aside for months. Today was the day...
This vacation has been...less than perfect. Rain, hotel issues, stomach bugs, urgent care, 30 degree freezing temps and a baby who wouldn’t sleep last night. When we rolled up to my dream location this evening the girls were DONE.
My two month old had screamed and cried bloody murder for 40 minutes driving up the mountain. My four year old fell asleep in the car. Things were crashing and burning and just like THAT MOM I dragged them both out of the car and took the photos anyway. Even though my four year old was so asleep she could barely make eye contact with the camera and the newborn was crying in between frames. It lasted all of 5 minutes. But God is it gorgeous, and boy am I happy I have these.
Here’s the thing, I do my absolute best to make sure my clients sessions are happy and peaceful and go off without a hitch. I sing, dance and roll around with toddlers in the grass. But sometimes, my clients are living this day and there’s just no recovering from a sleepy kiddo who isn’t enjoying being woken from the car nap mom tried to prevent. No pulling a smile out of the cranky baby. No muffling the unhappy comments under the breath of an uncooperative teenager.
And when all else fails to make the session blissful, I tell my families this.
“These days are happening right before our eyes and we feel them. Emotions are charged, tempers are short. It’s hard when things don’t go as we’d hoped. But I promise you this. Someday these toddlers will be 40 year olds. And we’ll be old men and old women. Grandparents. Our memories will be faded and the details fuzzy. And we’ll look back on these images of our once young families and see only love. Only youth. Only joy. We won’t remember the struggle...you never do.”
So here is my struggle, pictured below for you to see. And for today it’s fresh and new and hard. Mama is tired and frustrated that things didn’t go more smoothly on this trip I’d looked so forward to. But there were also bright moments, glowing golden breathtaking view kind of moments. And at the end of the day, I’m glad I have these. Because 40 years from now, I won’t remember the mess, only the love. ♥️
Book a session, even if your toddlers are a mess, I’ll take you as you are. You won’t regret it 😉
