It’s been awhile since I posted anything… in fact I think I have only really blogged on here a few times. I run a photography business and blog every shoot I do {I just so happen to be a little behind on that as well – excuse the new baby syndrome, it only lasts a few months!} and realized I’m horrible at blogging for my self. I started to think, in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut… how valuable each and every moment we have on this earth is; Including each memory as a mother. When I became a mom for the first time {even the beginning stages of pregnancy}, I remember referring to my mom, mother in law, and everyone I knew for tips, tricks and any words of the wise they had to offer. What I didn’t realize is sooner than I knew it, I would also become a victim of the “Mommy Memory Syndrome.” I’m a mom, and some days I cannot even remember my purse, let alone what I did or felt yesterday! I try hard to collect myself a few times a day, but we all become a victim of this eventually and loose it at any given moment.
When I was pregnant with my first, little Lady “S” I will call her, I remember asking my mom and mother in law for details about what they remember when they were pregnant. The answer… almost NOTHING! I found this astonishing, being that my 90 year old Grandmother can remember every grocery item she stuck into her cart yesterday on her grocery store run {Grandma Ruth! Oh I will need to devote an entire blog just for her one day soon…she’s amazing}, let alone moments when she held her first born for the first time! Soon enough I realized that a year had flown by since the birth of Lady “S” and I could hardly remember my birth story accurately! So it took a lot of contemplating and convincing of myself, but I have finally decided that this is reason number one, that I will start blogging my “mommy hood.” Not just for myself but for our now, two beautiful little girls, that one day, will ask me, and I will have no recollection besides these posts and maybe a book that I decide to make from these posts, of just how amazing every moment was of watching them blossom into the mom’s they will one day become.
I was looking back at a this photo below of baby S and it was of her at a beautiful place called Daffodil Hill. It was a photo I had posted on Facebook, and she was only 9 months old. I was reading the comments people had posted and realized that my comments back then… I didn’t even recognize!!! I could not recall the funny faces she use to make at me at that young age, in which I was describing to someone! The way her eye brows would move up and down reminded me of myself… She of course still does this, but on her two year old face, it’s just so different now. I found myself unbearably sad that those teeny tiny moments in which we wish we could bottle up and hold forever and ever…just disappear like that… in one little blink! This is why I will do nothing more before I start consistently documenting my babies as they grow. I have had a few friends do this already and after having baby K, there is just no excuse. Time will pass before I know it, and they will be off to college, {TEAR} and all I will have are these photos and nothing which to surround them by but my poor memory. So for now I will leave you with this photo… my precious first born {and no, just because she was first, doesn’t change how much I love my second and any others that may follow}…but seriously isn’t she the cutest??? I cannot wait to share more and be able to look back at my teeny little girls and their precious memories together!
Love K {Boots & Bubble Baths}
boots and bubble baths 