Life with kids is constant motion. CONSTANT!!
It’s running, jumping, crying, hugging, loving, playing, dreaming, cleaning, doting, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera!
So when there is a moment of stillness, STOP and BREATHE it in.
‘Cause pretty soon three siblings holding hands will turn into three energetic little people running and gleefully yelling right at you!!
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For some, smiles and laughs flow freely. A smile appears and as the mood grows lighter laughter soon follows. Then it is just an upward spiral, into more smiles and more laughs until the atmosphere is so light and innocent and airy. In those moments beauty is at its peak.
This to me is Lauren. She is innocent (in the best possible connotation). She is beautiful. She is about to graduate from high school and skies the limit!
Congratulations Lauren and Alex on your upcoming graduation. I loved that I was able to make your senior portraits. You are both beautiful!!
Oh, and Lauren braved getting a short hair cut just before we took these milestone senior images.
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It started with a trip to Vegas for an incredible workshop for entrepreneurs who also happen to be mothers, breathe. It led to the flu and 2 weeks of recovery. It resulted in these past two months and some days away …
Away from business, away from wasted time on facebook, away most everything that wasn’t focused on me or family.
And although it wasn’t consciously planned I couldn’t be more thankful that it happened. That I took the time to just be.
To enjoy my girls.
To have date nights.
To train.
To run.
To become a Tough Mudder.
To read.
To journal.
To plan.
To prioritize.
To breathe.
I am breathing. And I am happy to feel so centered and full!
I love instagram, all images (but the last) shared there and taken with my iPhone. Instagram is how I document my day. My iPhone is the camera that never leaves my side. I’m kimperc on Instagram if you’d like to follow along.
Don’t have the app? You can check it out on the web at Statigram.
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I NEVER thought I would love being a mother as much as I do. But it quickly became the most important part of who I am.
And soon after that it became one of my favorite transformations to witness in a woman … becoming mother.
It’s a truly amazing process. It’s something that hits us each in a different way. It’s a beautiful journey from selfishness to selflessness, from few worries to endless concerns, from screw-ups to redemption. It is a constant searching and desire and insatiable need to provide, better, protect the life that you created and housed and brought forth by the miracle of God.
It is an incredible glow that you can never shake, that you would never want to shake.
It is family. It is belonging. It is indescribable, even though I try.
Becoming mother and being a mom is a blessing. I cherish the gift of this blessing and I love being able to capture that gift for other mothers and families … To be able to bottle that moment up for reminiscing and remembering for all the days to come.
I’ve done a lot of thinking lately and had a lot of discussions with people from many different areas of my life. I finally feel like I know my mission not only for my business, but my life, and strangely enough it’s not what I thought it was going to be. Of course, my family comes first, but outside of that my mission is to …
Serve mothers in the quest to bottle up time.
This clarity in my mission, I guess we can call it a mission statement, has already started the ball rolling towards change in my photography business, but even more exciting to me is how this is going to manifest itself in other aspects of my life, motherhood, love and business. I can hardly wait!
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The dictionary has such a boring and clinical definition for the word jump … “to push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one’s legs and feet.”
I prefer to think of it as an action taken only in the happiest, most joyful, most special of times used to illustrate that there is nothing in this world that can hold me down. NOTHING!
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