I was visiting some of my very best friends on this planet last month when I asked Marcie if she’d had Ezra’s newborn photos taken. I knew the answer without her saying a word as she looked at me, eyebrows forced together with worry and exhaustion. I knew that look all to well from my own experiences, especially after my second was born. I also knew that when they arrived home from the hospital with their sweet third-born, Ezra, their pipes in their son’s room had burst and not long later it had happened again all within the chaos of the holidays. So when she uttered the little word that I knew was coming, “No,” I had already determined that we would make it happen while I was in town.
I always tell my expecting Mamas and Daddies that these sessions are one of the hardest to do, but one of the most rewarding. We get so excited as we gush over the latest newborn photos that go up on Facebook and are sent to us announcing the birth of a loved ones’ baby. We can’t wait to get our own little one captured when he arrives. What we don’t expect is that those first few weeks are some of the hardest and simultaneously rewarding of our lives. Not much other than experience can prepare us for the amount of exhaustion and emotions that our newborn brings with them. And then the time comes for that photo session that we’ve long prepared for and it is the absolute last thing that we can imagine taking on. But I tell you it is so worth it. It’s amazing how much our baby changes (and at how much we forget) in that first week of their little life and it is such a gift to have those photos to mark it with.
My whole point with all of this is that I think it’s incredibly worth it. And to see Marcie’s face (in the photo below) light up when she realized that it was actually happening, that all of her family was smiling in a photo when she wasn’t even sure a photo session of her sweet babe, let alone a photo of her whole family, was going to happen was completely worth it. I know she had her doubts, but I’m so honored to have been in the right place at the right time to give my incredible friends memories of this hard, but JOYFUL time in her life that she’ll never be able to repeat.
I love you so much Marcie, Jared, Sophia, Micah and Ezra and I miss you incredibly so. I see the Lord doing an incredible work within each of you as he uses you to reach so many. xoxo
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