dripping with passion

everyone’s experience with healing and adjusting after having a baby is so different, and those first weeks are often very, very challenging. but i strongly believe that the postpartum period can be a really beautiful, sanctifying, precious time in a a woman’s life. (i wrote a bit about this back here .) this time around, for me, it has been trickier in many ways to savor this unique slice of life … but i am finding joy and sweetness and wonder everyday. i’m definitely no expert, but just from my own experience i have two main tips for new moms: first ,  relax . you’ll get so much conflicting advice and there will be so many tiny worries and you may experience a strong urge to control things. just follow your instincts, chill out, and try to enjoy. this time will go by really fast (even if it definitely doesn’t feel like that in the moment!). and all the hard bits are part of the adventure. second , prioritize taking care of your body, mind and spirit. work with your partner...

  motherhood is so incredibly important and powerful and sacred and beautiful to me. so - even though my postpartum, sleep-deprived brain is pretty fuzzy today - i couldn’t let the week of mothers’ day pass without sharing some thoughts here! i want to write something eloquent and poignant that somehow articulates how much i love being a mom, how much i appreciate and adore my mom, how tremendously meaningful i feel motherhood is … but even with a sleep-fed and hormone-balanced mind i still couldn’t do this topic any justice. so here’s just some totally scattered thoughts for mothers’ day, two thousand eighteen.   i  love , love,  love that someone calls me “mama.” the sound of little mo’s voice saying that simple word just has to be the sweetest, best, most wonderful sound in the universe. especially when he’s saying it while giving me a big hug. and i love , love,  love the feeling of tiny gabriel curled up on my chest, breathing through his nose, h...

          i used to consider the week after moses was born to be the sweetest slice of life i would ever experience. little did i know that it could somehow get sweeter. the week after gabriel was born included the added bonuses of seeing my sons as siblings, my beloved dad being around, and glorious london springtime. i was surrounded by the five people on earth that i love the most and that love me the most, as my capacity to love felt like it was doubling. our newborn baby brought heaven to our home and our toddler kept us giggling. the sun shone and the flowers burst and my heart was so swollen.  i will forever cherish the last week of april, two thousand eighteen.    ^^ the morning after gabriel was born. ^^ my mom snapped these photos during our photo shoot with our photographer friend kami on the afternoon after gabriel was born. i love that they show the behind-the-scenes of getting a shot of the wright brothers together … there was definitely a lot of adult supervision whe...