MATERNITY PORTRAITS - Mitzi Starkweather
I guess I refuse to hate 2020. Hear me out:
Even though this year’s been challenging, January was beautiful. So was February and that first little sliver of March - the part where I took a pregnancy test (two just to be sure) and realized my life would change forever. But you know what else was beautiful?
Weeping because I missed my friends and job and favorite places, as I realized how gloriously rich my life is.
Learning how to face the fires of life instead of avoiding them with a bottle of wine.
Paying attention to who I’ve missed most during this season, who I’ve kept in touch with, and whose eyes I feel relieved to see when we do meet up in person.
Growing a child in my core... with all the changes and wonders and worries. He is expanding and when he arrives I will endure much more pain but something tells me it’ll be more than worth it.
A new sense of gratitude for the things I used to take for granted. Oh there was so much I zoomed past, skimmed over, and took for granted.
Summer is ending and we are all in a new season. “It doesn’t seem like it should be September already,” we keep saying. But the past few months have had the same minutes in a day as any others. The events this year have simply exposed many personal and collective problems that we used to skim over and hide and avoid. We simply can’t avoid them anymore. Change is happening, the world is waking up. And someday I will look my son in his (brown, possibly blue) eyes and tell him 2020 was a beautiful year because that was the year he joined us on this magnificent earth.
Sincerely,
Mitzi
Thank you to:
Hair by Tamara Willoughby
Makeup by Natalie DeMint
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