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I heard this quote yesterday for the first time, and it stopped me dead in my tracks.

All too often I find myself annoyed with how I am most always disheveled these days. Hair a hot mess, haven’t showered in days (that’s an exaggeration, let’s say a day), a to-do list a million miles long, dishes in the sink, clothes to be folded, a hangry baby (that’s short for hungry & angry),  and a sweet little rambunctious 3 year old who wants something rightthissecond. Sometimes I feel like I can see little puffs of steam coming out of my ears…and then I look over in the mirror and realize I have mascara on ONE eye, and mush crusting on my shoulder from the banana my baby ate during lunch.

Then there was this.

Instantly…none of that mattered. It doesn’t matter that I am not always put together. It doesn’t matter that those sticky little fingers want to touch my face (or hair, shirt, jeans – or any other place on my body). Would I love a designer bauble caressing my neck? Absolutely. Would I adore a diamonds all over  my fingers? Sure – I’m sure dried spit up would look great on the prongs.  It doesn’t matter that I don’t look like that mom who seemingly has it all together – because you know what, I don’t. 

I do have my children though. And they are certainly two little precious jewels. There’s not a day that goes by that their arms aren’t around my neck, that my lips don’t kiss their sweet little perfectly soft cheeks. I rock ’em. Read to them. LOVE THEM. Even if that means bananas as a brooch, it’s what I’ve been called to do. And what a blessing it is to do it.

Here’s to remembering what matters today – and everyday, my friends.

 

Cherish these jewels, Momas…

 

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