Late Summer Maternity + Family Portraits // Hickory Meadows, Traverse City

Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind

You’re tethered to another and you’re worried all the time

You always knew the melody, but you never heard it rhyme

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The first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep

She broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant to keep

She filled my life with color, canceled plans and trashed my car

But none of that was ever who we are

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All my rowdy friends are out accomplishing their dreams

But I am the mother of Evangeline

And they’ve got their morning paper and their coffee and their time

And they still enjoy their evenings with the skeptics and the wine

Oh, but all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time

From inside of the ages through your eyes

In honor of the Brandi Carlisle concert I am going to tonight, I wanted to share a sampling of lyrics from her song, The Mother. They hit me hard this morning on my way to a family photo shoot and they also reminded me of this one last week, and of so many many many other mothers I have had the honor of photographing this year. No mother can ever truly understand the experience of another mother, but damn, when I talk to Annie, so many of the deep feelings that I have surrounding the complexities of motherhood are reflected back at me. I am super grateful for this relationship and I adore this family. Thanks for asking me to document your life again.