Loving Mary Evelyn
Mary Evelyn was 3 weeks old during our session. Her sweet parents have their hands full with her + her 17mo old brother, Craft. They are precious! It is no doubt a challenge bringing your second child into the world. Your time is split caring for a newborn infant and entertaining a toddler, while recovering yourself. It can break you down to your core if you let it. These parents take each step in stride, and like many others are surviving and thriving in unprecedented times. They are both health care professionals and are not naive to the impacts our world is facing. However, their love for their children and love for each other is evident! Here are a few of my favorites from our time together. It was a cozy morning capturing the essence of life with littles in their home in Mountain Brook, AL.
Adding children to a marriage can cause a lot of stress between a husband and wife, that may come as no surprise. It is so so easy as mothers to put your children first because they truly need your care and attention more than anyone or anything to physically survive. However, God calls us to prioritize our husbands before our children. That can be difficult in the immediate postpartum days. But I am here to tell you it is so utterly important. That brings me to my favorite photo from this session. There is always a favorite of mine, that probably no one else cares for the same way.
For me, it’s the little details that make me excited about each and every photo session.
I absolutely love the way he is admiring his wife in this photo. It speaks volumes to me as I know it does to her once viewing it from the outside looking in. Communication between husband and wife when you have small children can take many forms. A small glance, or exaggerated eye contact can mean a wide variety of things only the two of you understand. I know my husband and I have many hand signals we use to communicate in silence to avoid waking our twins haha! But seriously, this candid photo takes the cake for me. It represents unconditional love, agape love, which we are called to provide to our spouse.
Also I cannot decide if I like the color or b+w image better. They are both super special. The light streaming in from a very cold and dreary day was perfection.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
| Ephesians 5:25-33 |
