Motherhood is Magic

This time of year is the most magical time of year, no doubt. And this year, so much more than any other year of my life it seems, it’s pure magical bliss and I can’t get enough.

I walk out of my bedroom in the morning to the coziest home ever. My sweet, miracle family. The noises of rain or frogs or school busses or pure silence. The fire is always going, the Christmas tree always lit, and the stockings are legit hung by the chimney with care. The elf has been moved, the coffee perked, the dishes done.

It can be really overwhelming, too, this time of year. The hustle and bustle of it all. I feel blessed that we’ve taken this season to slow down significantly. Stay home and just be. it feels so different from how our summer and fall were. As I look back, I can only remember snippets of what it was like – the moving and the home selling and the preemie baby and active toddler and heat of it all. And in that shuffle, some things inevitably got lost.

One of which was photos, and I have been feeling so saddened about this. We have three photos in total of the four of us as a family of four, none of which can you see Cece’s face. I don’t have any newborn photos of her that aren’t super candid, and I certainly somehow missed Joey as a three year old because he’s now halfway to four and I don’t know what happened.

I’ve been praying about these photos. Not knowing how to get the ones I wanted that were going to document this moment accurately. The calm within the chaos.

And then I saw this photo of my friend Holly.

And I knew. I had to have her come here, and it had to be now.

My friends, this was the sweetest two hours of my life, and amid it all, Joey was a terror, Cece fussy, and my home not in tip top shape. Not one aspect was prepared, prepped or planned. And it was absolute perfection.

I am so in awe of Francesca and this session with her, and I am even more thankful that I could have imagined that she captured this for us. I will look at these photos for decades and remember this season, and how perfectly imperfect it was.

I also feel so intensely strong about documenting this time in our lives. It goes by fast, and without reprieve. So I am just beyond excited to partner with Francesca to bring one of you a session with her, to document these moments for yourself.

In the session, Francesca will come to your home and spend 45 minutes with you and your family (kids, husband, whomever is your tribe), and catch you in the candid, most beautiful moments of motherhood in a way that no one else can see them except you.

Enter the giveaway over on my Instagram page, and book your motherhood shoot with Francesca in time to get those Christmas tree lights in those images, because, well… just look.