Motherhood

MOTHERHOOD:

It’s the highest, holiest service assumed by humankind. It’s the definition of selfless service. It’s both a daunting responsibility and a glorious opportunity. The divine role of motherhood is a gift from God, and key to His plan of happiness for all His children.

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In all my years as a photographer, I have had the great PRIVILEGE of photographing many mothers. All kinds of mothers. Mothers to be, new Mothers and long time Moms. Each women is UNIQUE, each women is BEAUTIFUL and each women is UNITED in a single purpose: the raising and nurturing of their children with a heart bursting with love for them. I would usual be posting My A.B.C Life today, but I wanted to pay homage to MOTHERHOOD in light of Mothers Day Weekend. Here are a handful of some of my favorite mom moments over the years and some quotes that have helped inspire me on those tough days. Happy Mothers day to all you Moms and Moms to be. How blessed are we?! 

"Of all the rights of women, the GREATEST is to be a mother." -Lin Yutang

"There is no way to be a PERFECT mother, but a million ways to be a GOOD one." -Jill Churchill

"MOTHERHOOD is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something you do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for!" -Neil L. Anderson

"Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other on the face of the earth."- Marjorie Pay Hinkley

"God made YOU the mother of your children because he needs you to do "you" things with them." -Whitney Permann

"There is no limit to what a mother can accomplish."- Julie B. Beck

"the moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before, the women existed, but the MOTHER, never. A mother is something absolutely new." -Rajneesh

"Life does not come with a manual, it comes with a mother."- Joy of Mom

"Being a mom is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed."-Linda Wooten

"There are few things more powerful than a mother's prayers."- Boyd K. Packer

"Mom is just WOW upside down."- unknown

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."- Meryl Streep

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother." -Abraham Lincoln

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." - Agatha Christie

"The best medicine in the world is a mothers hug."-unknown

"No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love."-Edward H. Chapin

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -Elizabeth Stone 

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I LOVE BEING A MOTHER!

I am learning to be a better one everyday. 

I never knew Gods love for me until I became a mother. 

I am so so so grateful to know that love and hope my children can feel that love through me. 

-Happy Mothers Day 2014