Hi there! It has been quite a while since we have updated anything on any of our sites, but with such milestones on the way for us, I thought it would be just the perfect time.
COVID-19 continues on in our world, and this has impacted how we look at and do everything - from work, family, friends, and even faith. I don’t know about you, but if it weren’t for faith - in something more than what I can see - these recent days would have really dragged me down. That’s not to say, that we haven’t had days when we’re down in the dumps, but faith has been a strong foundation, to continue on. Faith in something greater, and a Hope for the future (Jeremiah 29:11).
This last year and a half has been very trying for us, for all of us, with much loss. With loss for ourselves, we welcomed a child for a very short time into our lives, but now we celebrate him as he lives in Heaven (St. Paxton James, pray for us!) (Stephanie wears a Lady of Sorrows pendant every day to remember this life that moves us still so deeply) ; with loss of many kinds for our loved ones, who have trusted us to keep them in our prayers, as they keep us in our prayers.
With that, we have continued to take every day, in the only way we know how: one day at a time. We still get up and have our morning breakfast together. We still pray our family rosary once a month. We still go and take our sweet little dog for walks and enjoy her innocence. We still go to work. We still do our chores. We still go to church and worship our God. We still talk about the future. This has been all too important.
As we continued on, we also continued to still try for a baby to stay with us. And to our surprise, we learned that you can’t just have a baby. Even with careful planning through Natural Family Planning, even when what we were taught in high school was that if you so much as kissed a boy, you’d get pregnant. Well, people, let us tell you, this is not the case! Those were lies. And we’ve been learning and re-learning Love, and each other, through this process. God really has a plan! and you can’t rush God’s timing. So we’ve also often come to the Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to learn the difference. Amen.
Yes. simple. but powerful. Like Love.
And people, let us tell you, there is a rainbow after the rain! There is a future and a hope. For you. And for us. And we are so thrilled to share that as Timothy and I are approaching our 2 year wedding anniversary, and as I entered into another decade of my life, that we are expecting a little one, all our own. Our son. We praise God!
We are so grateful for these moments, no matter how long we get to live them out for. Life is short, and Love is worth it, right? Thank you for our photographer, Michelle Dorothy right here in Connecticut, for capturing some pretty special images for us, during such a meaningful and special time in our lives. We are happy to share some of our favorites with you!
With that said, we have definitely been on a photography pause, as we prepare for the arrival of our baby boy. We are so incredibly grateful for the inquiries we have received and will be happy to take on wonderful clients again in September/October 2021. Life is quite an adventure!
For closing thoughts, our hope is that this inspires you - to remember to hope for the future. To remember that circumstances change, and there is no need to fear. To remember that although our experiences in life can be fleeting, it is important to live them out loud. And to keep Faith, for where there is Faith, there is Love, and where there is Love, there is LIFE.
