Moms are essential and all they essentially want are smiles.

Hello Fellow Memory Collectors!

This is a gratitude post.

Bonny came to me with one wish, to see the smiles on her children’s faces so she could plaster them all over her walls at home. As a mom myself, I knew what she meant. She was looking for those smiles you see when you tickle your children after they grab another cookie out of the cookie jar, just when you weren’t looking. Or the smiles, you see as you are chasing your kids in the backyard during a pick-up game of tag. Even those sweet smiles you get when you cuddle to read your children some bedtime stories as you rock them to sleep. In short, the smiles that show you as a mother you are getting through to your kids. The smiles that demonstrate your children know how much you care about them, and how much you LOVE them. You may not get a “thank you” for your selfless, 24/7 unrelenting efforts of being a mother, but their smiles are GRATITUDE enough.

This session has a whimsy with an Americana background during a time of autumn. I spent time telling the story of a kid’s perspective, paying attention to the ripples in the pond, along with the exploration that happens when kids are in play, and motherly love. Their story is of a time when they smiled during the golden hour with gratitude for their mother.

As for me, I simply loved being there to witness their authentic love.