10/15/2025
A friend of mine sent me a snap on Saturday of her and her girls curled up on the couch with the text, “and to think I almost missed that this is the whole point”.
And that stuck with me. Since this spring, my social media presence has been sparse. On one of my April weddings, I came home late at night to a sleeping house and a piggy bank sitting on my dresser. The next morning, she told me she gave me her money so I didn’t have to get money doing weddings anymore.
And to think I almost missed it… I built this business on a big dream to be a well-known wedding photographer. I chased the dream behind the thinking of,” I’m doing it for them, giving them the best life they can have.” In this season, I am realizing that dreams can change and there is beauty in the simple. In this season, they need me, home, in the here and the now.
So I’ve decided not to miss the whole point of it. As of now, I am no longer taking on weddings, and I am slowing down portraits sessions, moving more towards lifestyle and childhood, story telling when I have the time. I don’t know how long this season will last, maybe a year, maybe until they’re in middle school and more independent, maybe forever. I don’t know but what I do know is I’ve decided not to miss it, not to miss them growing right before my eyes, to savor the bits of their childhood I have left. So, this page will still be here, my camera still in my hand, just not as often. I will still be here, but not like the last 6 years. My gratitude, awe and thankfulness will still be here because I am forever thankful to all that entrust me to capture their moments, truly.
But in this season, I’ve decided to not miss the mess, the chaos, the loudness, the imagination, the gift of childhood, the pouring into the only things I get to take with me into heaven, my children. I am deciding to relish in it, soak it all up, ingrain it all into my brain, be present in the good, bad, chaotic and ugly so that when they’re grown and I’m old and wrinkly, I’ll never have to regret what I missed out on in their lives. I’ll get to pull out the memories that I was fully present for.
All my love,
Jordan