“Take care of yourself, embrace any help that is offered and lastly, my Grandmother's advice to me "Children are life renewing, slow down and enjoy every moment."
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advice for moms
Listen to what people say but listen to it as an option –
not a choice you have to make. Do the best YOU can do and do what works for you and your family.
"For this I bless you as the ruins fall: the pains You give me are more precious than all other gains.” -C.S. Lewis
I met with a mom last week who's interested in commissioning a portrait of her first child, a two-year-old boy.
I asked her, like I ask all of the moms I meet, to talk about how having a child has made her experience love differently.
Kids are messy and loud, but it’s a joyful noise, says my collector Micki. As a mom to six and three-year-old Francis and Henry, Micki has learned many lessons. But perhaps the most important, she says, is to stop and enjoy her kids.