For Mother's Day this year I wanted just one thing...(and a nap) a photoshoot of me and my children. Unfortunately on that day, things didn't pan out so we did the shoot a few weeks after Mothers day. It's crazy how much photography envelops so much of my thoughts...I lay awake at night dreaming about my recent shoot, what I could have improved on, my next shoot, what I want to do. etc. My Dougers bought me this couch and is such a trooper to go along with all my crazy dreaming. My dream was this couch in a wheat field, but when we got there the field was mowed...boo. Onto the next best thing, a corn field as high as an elephants eye. The sun was beating down on us, so some of these shots are a little hazier than I would like, but honestly what treasures!! I am going to make a collage or something fabulous with these images.
Ok..so there's the back story on these images.
Just a few Mommy thoughts...I bought this book at Desert the other day and have been reading it.
These are the folks that started Joy School and Linda Eyre also has an amazing Mothering book that I read last year that changed me.(come to think of it, I need to read it again)
Anyways, I am only a few chapters in but this spoke to me. The first Chapter talks about our children's true identity. Our spiritual brothers and sisters.
"We are not their creators, or their makers, or their owners, nor are we fully responsible for all that they are. They are unique children of God with their own destinies.
Children are likened into seedlings in a nursery. You know how all the little plants look the same when they are just little green shoots? But until you stop to read the little label on each one, you don't know if it's an oak tree, a fir tree, or a lilac bush."
This book has inspired me to commit to be a better more patient Mother and has helped my perspective.
Ok...enough ramblings, onto my favorite people in the world
