Journal
“There is no creation in motherhood; no ownership, only stewardship - and a quiet but profound Faith that if cared for - the child will bloom.” - Bunmi Laditan
“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.” - Jodi Picoult
“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky is the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” - Larry Barretto
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” - Alfred Tennyson
“Spinning on that dizzy edge - I kissed her face and kissed her head - and dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow.” - The Cure
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” - Dr. Seuss
We thought it’d be fun to share some favorites from our own first family photo sesh! Images captured by my sweet friend Megan (of Megan Styled) and edited by yours truly.
“On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, ‘Life will never be the same.’” - Nancy Tillman
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” - Leo Christopher
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.” - Sarah Dessen
“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos; to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none; to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.” - Molly Haskell
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald