It's not an easy time in our lives but it is a Holy one.  That time for caregivers when the children are small, and impossible to contain, but we try.

This mama had an immense amount of work on her her hands just showing up for her photo session because.....

TWINS.  Watching this beautiful woman unload her kids for our session looked impossible, how do you keep the three year old safe while carrying TWO car seats from the car to inside, and wait, HOW do you carry two car seats at the same time with out just falling over.  She did it though.  Everyone came in safe, had full tummies and was clean and shiny.  Somehow she had managed herself to be glowing with smooth and lovely hair

If you are in the Innisfil or Barrie area and are trying to figure out what to ask for, or give, for Mothers Day, consider the gift of a Motherhood Photo session.

Gift certificates available.

Take Care
Rae

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This is a topic I'm very excited to write about because its the VERY REASON photography became a fixation for me and what motivates me to keep pressing forward in the craft. 

Photos of us as “Mother”.

I had a HORRENDOUS pregnancy. The worst - everything that could go wrong seemed to.  I had a terrible pregnancy and a  traumatic delivery and I gained 90 pounds in the process and spent too many days in the ER to count.  I remember laying in the hospital after my baby was delivered feeling worthless.  Nursing wasn’t working, my hair could not be combed out and I felt like garbage.  Can I tell you the truth?  People TREAT you differently when you gain weight and your hair is a mess. Not all people, but many people.  You can become invisible. It was a lot of changes all at once.  I remember a picture being taken of me and my new baby and someone put a blanket over my arm to hide it from the cameras view.


It did not feel good.


But the thing is, I was beautiful.  In a way that everyone knows they are too.  We all have it, that spark of visual lovely, and we know it.  Because we catch it in ourselves.   And  of course our children see it in us.  We have BEAUTY, we all do.   But we don’t always feel it.  And not everyone is good at handling a camera….. but EVERYONE has one.  SO bad pictures are being snapped of us all the time that don’t ever catch the REAL beauty of what is before us.

That beauty is not diminsihed with the rolls or wrinkles, or fitness.  Its not about changing the shape of our arms and legs or bums.  Its about the way the light fills your eyes when you smile.  Its about the way your hair falls when you lean forward to kiss that 5 year olds nose. It's the shape you take when you throw your self into scooping up that child in your arms.