05/30/2026
A couple of months ago God kept bringing to mind the beauty of motherhood. He knew what was coming and so maybe He was just preparing me.
I kept looking at my Instagram grid and noticing I have been posting so many pictures of mom’s with kids and was just asking what is it that keeps drawing me here.
It is hard for me to express in words what I get to capture each session and what I am even learning on my motherhood journey. There is so much profound beauty in the way mothers interact with their kids during a session that it is always an honor to capture it. I think what began to stick out to me even more it the gentleness of a mother towards her child, the interesting need of a child for their mother when the dad is sitting right there (haha), the way a mother’s presence brings so much safety and comfort to all who are around her, the way kids just snuggle up next to their mom or love getting a smile from her. The beauty of her service to her kids even if its getting a juice box, the calmness or not so calmness sets the tone of the family and so many more things….
And then I loss my mom on April 6th
and the flood gates of all who my mom was to me began to open up.
I loss my greatest advocate for myself and my kids, someone who I could call at any time and vent and get clarity on life, her presence even though she was 8 hours away was always available to talk, her encouragement when life felt annoying or frustrating, her service to our family to sew things and fix clothes or the big pile of ironing she would do when she would visit, filled in the gaps educationally when I felt like my kids are getting enough at school, helped me with recipes, her judgment on people and events haha would always make a good joke later or a good one liner, Her reminder of God’s provision and control over my life, her position as the matriarch of our family - getting us all together for holidays or summer vacations- she made it happen and now she’s gone.
