#livethelittlethings

You always think you’ll get around to sharing all 4,637,738 pictures you have of your child, but of course life happens and you don’t, and then one day you’re scrolling, and you find THIS picture () , taken almost 3 weeks ago, and realize () your child almost doesn’t look like this anymore, so you hurry to post it because TIME IS FLYING. And crawling. Flying and crawling. Both, both, both.
FYI: we were practicing our dainty hands over here. So you know what I’m having for dessert, right? #ladyfingers
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Oh, and these DARLING knitted booties we’re generously provided by @corrinasshop ✨
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I realized the other day how very few pictures I have of both Hazel and me . . . I have roughly 4 badrillion photos of Hazel, but only about 6 of the two of us, and even fewer with Daddy in them. Like most moms, I assume, I’m always more eager to get pictures of Hazel (because, let’s be honest, showers and make-up are things of the past #momstrong), looking like the radiant Beastie she is, than I am of capturing MY image, when I feel purely beast. Due to multiple chronic illness issues, two-thirds of my hair fell out after Hazel was born, followed by a fierce case of adult acne. Add to that a hefty portion of sleep deprivation, and, well, no… I’m not aching to have my image documented. But a wise woman once told me – thank you, Sister Alyce – that I should be sure to get behind the lens as often as I can, because I will want these pictures, one day, despite how stinky and gray and covered in pimples I might be in them. She’s right of course, damn her.

And besides, if anything, my appearance is a more pure reflection of the me beneath the me; of how Hard I’m Showing Up for my child. It won’t always be this way. I won’t always be here, in this fragile, volatile space where love and desperation mingle and intertwine, two cords of the same rope with which I swing to new heights and occasionally want to hang myself …

So here’s to present over perfect.

Here’s to sacrifice and surrender and to inhabiting EVERY SINGLE MOMENT. Messy and painful and exquisite.

Because they are ours.

Because only we can invite and detain and extract them.

Here’s to bringing our nothing and our everything, to being unabashedly broken and relentlessly loved.

I can’t think of a better day for Love to win than that of Good Friday.

Happy Easter, beloveds.
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #goodfriday

After a lovely and FULL weekend, I’m not going to lie, Monday is kicking my butt. I refer to this kind of exhaustion as puke-y tired. You just wander-trudge from room to room, trying not to upchuck on anything hand-wash only. Going to make myself another (5) cup of ☕️ and maybe do a few jumping jacks. Or maybe I’ll just THINK about doing them. Same thing, right? Sure it is.
Anyone else battling puke-y tired?
If so, these should help.
I mean, THAT SMILE.
#goodgriefPickle
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This little Pickle surprised the HECK out of her parents by ROLLING OVER on Sunday. There we were, just having our irregularly scheduled tummy time, expecting her to face plant into the mat as usual, and she goes and does a full 180. What the what!? I suppose she’ll be asking me for the car keys by next week…
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Magical knitted beanie @corrinasshop

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