Portraits of my daughter, each week, every week, in 2014.
She loves watching dogs and eating apples. She sleeps between Ryan and me, and so wakes each morning with the people she loves most on either side. She naps at 9:00 (in my arms) at 12:00 (at my favorite coffee shop) and at 3:00 (on our afternoon walk). Unconventional, but it works.
We’re nine months into parenthood and thirteen weeks into 2014. I learn more each day to let go of control and embrace the beauty of living in the moment. My daughter is growing up before our eyes, and it’s happening quickly, just like they all said. This past week has been tiring. She’s teething and wants me to hold her all the time. But it’s also been joyful. She laughs so hard when Margot fetches her green ball or when her papa and I dance in our living room. And life is like that, isn’t it? Bittersweet. There’s good and bad, and it’s all tangled up in the mundane. The trick is learning to stop and celebrate the divine moments we’re given. Once you start paying attention, you realize there are far more than you’d ever thought. 
You will have a ton of divine moments with her, and you are so right, she’ll be grown and on her way before you know what’s happened. She is such a sweetie and she’s lucky to have you for a mama, true love at its best!
It’s like the old adage says: “You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have: The Facts of Life.”
so beautiful-the writing and, of course, little Lucy.
Such a sweetheart!!
Monet,
Your words capture the essence of the moments in such a beautiful way. Lucy is such a beautiful baby, and she so lucky to have a Momma like you.
Monet, I do hope that Lucy is feeling better by now – hopefully she is over her second infection! And, yes, she is beuatiful and yes, you are such a wonderful mum!
Hugs and kisses to you and Lucy! Take good care!
So many of us don’t recognize those divine moments. You are truly lucky to have done so and she’s the cutest baby ever! 🙂
Aww. Your writing is like poetry. Adorable photographs!
Precious! 🙂 ela
So precious! Lucy is adorable!
What a cutie! No wonder she is always so happy: having such a caring mother.
She really is growing so much, and she gets more beautiful all the time!
Love the sentence: “And life is like that, isn’t it? Bittersweet. There’s good and bad, and it’s all tangled up in the mundane. The trick is learning to stop and celebrate the divine moments we’re given. Once you start paying attention, you realize there are far more than you’d ever thought.” I had to stop and re-read it a few times. I try to remember that always in between all the mundane…
Lovely update. Thanks.