Happy Mother’s Day - Michigan child photographer
May 12, 2012Everything in my life changed 13 years ago. The moment that you were laid on my chest, screaming, red faced, and perfect, all my goals, ambitions and priorities shifted. You were here, finally, and that seemed to be all that mattered. I was a wife, a sister, daughter and friend. Now I was something more cherished than all of the above. I was a MOM!
I sit here trying to decipher what a mom is…who we are and what we do. Not a definition easy to obtain… We are the ones that will forgo our needs to make sure you have what you need, we bake 100 cookies until 3 am for your classroom party, we place you on the bus for the first time and then go back into our house and cry. When young we place bandaids on scraped knees and when older hold you when you have your heart broken. We laugh at the same knock knock jokes 50X over, we cheer you on at the finish line ..first place or last place it doesn’t matter, we tell you everything is going to be “ok” even when we are unsure and frightened of the situation ourselves, we want to watch you get old and at the same time wish you would never grow up, we make magic sparkle dust to keep the night monsters away, we walk into your room when you have left for college and cry tears of happiness…and sadness, we watch you sleep. Whether you are 1 or 40 you are the last thing we think about as we settle in for bed. We are not perfect nor wear a cape and somedays we are overwhelmed and yes, even yell. One thing is constant though…you ARE our everything.
For all the things we do and all the things we feel there is one thing I cannot describe. I cannot describe what you give to us. What meaning, hope and faith you bring into our world. Those things are infinite.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you. May you take the time to reflect on the love, the nurturing and most of all the beautiful children that you have brought into this world. XO- Lorissa
…and what would a post be without a photo of me….and my 4 beautiful children that mean more to me than anything else on this Earth!
