Celebrate Mother’s Day E’ry Day

Though I do not care to celebrate Mother’s Day for myself, it brings me great joy to help other families celebrate either the one who brought them into this world or those who raised or helped raise others’ biological children. For the second year in a row, I had to go to Legacy West for Mother’s Day portraits.

We celebrated Moms whose babies are now adulting away, we celebrated expecting mothers, Mama Bears who were experiencing their first Mother’s Day and one mom who lost her partner in December who treated her three babies to a fancy steak dinner. These personal portrait sessions are oh-so different than my typical day spent with corporate headshots, Fortune-500  event photography and branding sessions.

This is being written the day after back-to-back photography sessions, complete with sweet bouquets created by our friends at Sand and Soil Flowers. As my puppers Kibbles and Ruffles and I took our morning walk, we skipped across art chalking the walk. One creation caught my attention. Adorned in angel wings were the dates 08/13/86-08/20/21. Underneath was the verbiage “I miss you every day, Mami.” Below was a bleeding chalk-pink heart. If that doesn’t make you hug your mom a bit tighter, I don’t know what does.