Ringing in 30🥂💍✨
My twenties brought me the greatest blessings. Meeting my soul mate, becoming a mama, finding our home and getting to live each day doing work that fills my heart with so much joy and purpose. Johnathan and I met when I was 22 years old and has been my anchor through every wave and well of inspiration and presence that has made my life a waking dream.
The day before my 30th birthday he took me to the train station of our charming little town and proposed. I’m still in shock that he was able to surprise me. No one can surprise me! (I was wearing Birkenstocks with socks for fuck’s sake!)
I had already decided he had no choice but to spend the rest of his life with me but now it’s official and I can’t wait to celebrate our love and all that we’ve built together.
Right before we left the house Lou pointed to my bare finger and said, “RING”. She almost blew his cover but I take it she approves that mom and dad are getting hitched.
Ringing in 30🥂💍✨
My twenties brought me the greatest blessings. Meeting my soul mate, becoming a mama, finding our home and getting to live each day doing work that fills my heart with so much joy and purpose. Johnathan and I met when I was 22 years old and has been my anchor through every wave and well of inspiration and presence that has made my life a waking dream.
The day before my 30th birthday he took me to the train station of our charming little town and proposed. I’m still in shock that he was able to surprise me. No one can surprise me! (I was wearing Birkenstocks with socks for fuck’s sake!)
I had already decided he had no choice but to spend the rest of his life with me but now it’s official and I can’t wait to celebrate our love and all that we’ve built together.
Right before we left the house Lou pointed to my bare finger and said, “RING”. She almost blew his cover but I take it she approves that mom and dad are getting hitched.
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Parenting In The Age of Self-Imposed Surveillance
I’m seeing so many apps and hi-tech baby monitors marketed to new mothers to keep track of feeds, wakes, poops, pees and promising to “make motherhood easier”. Frankly I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Data analytics do not make motherhood easier.
What if I told you you and your baby could thrive without a schedule or a performance review. What if I told you that you are fully capable of tuning into your child’s rhythms and meeting her needs, without living under the shadow of Big Tech?
The baby monitors that detect breathing patterns, REM cycles, wet diapers, temperature, track movement and literally rock your baby really aren’t that impressive to me. Parents have been successfully doing all these things for centuries (without emitting high levels of disruptive EMFs)
I don’t believe this type of technology helps us parent better. Instead, it takes us further from our intuition and makes us more reliant on the devices that are intruding more and more into our daily lives.
Use your hand to feel the temperature of her skin, smell her diaper to know if it’s clean, let her chest rise and fall on your body as she sleeps, offer your breast to her when she cries and you’ll know if she’s hungry. You see, nature has provided us with the tools we need to tune in. Using our senses strengthens our trust in ourselves and our children.
Kicking off Lou’s birthday month at grandma’s house with an early celebration for our little fairy
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Kicking off Lou’s birthday month at grandma’s house with an early celebration for our little fairy
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✨ Sparks of Joy ✨
The most wonderful time of the year ✨🌲🎅🏼
The most wonderful time of the year ✨🌲🎅🏼
The most wonderful time of the year ✨🌲🎅🏼
The most wonderful time of the year ✨🌲🎅🏼
The most wonderful time of the year ✨🌲🎅🏼
The colors of nostalgia
The colors of nostalgia
The colors of nostalgia
The colors of nostalgia
The colors of nostalgia
The celebrations continue for the Scorpios 🤍✨…Happy 1st Birthday to our little forest fairy Lou!!!! You amaze me every day with your sense of humor, compassion, curiosity and intellect. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year because our hearts have known you forever. Thank you for choosing us as your parents and for showing us just how sweet life can be.
Photo by @emmamariej_
The celebrations continue for the Scorpios 🤍✨…Happy 1st Birthday to our little forest fairy Lou!!!! You amaze me every day with your sense of humor, compassion, curiosity and intellect. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year because our hearts have known you forever. Thank you for choosing us as your parents and for showing us just how sweet life can be.
Photo by @emmamariej_
The celebrations continue for the Scorpios 🤍✨…Happy 1st Birthday to our little forest fairy Lou!!!! You amaze me every day with your sense of humor, compassion, curiosity and intellect. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year because our hearts have known you forever. Thank you for choosing us as your parents and for showing us just how sweet life can be.
Photo by @emmamariej_
The celebrations continue for the Scorpios 🤍✨…Happy 1st Birthday to our little forest fairy Lou!!!! You amaze me every day with your sense of humor, compassion, curiosity and intellect. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year because our hearts have known you forever. Thank you for choosing us as your parents and for showing us just how sweet life can be.
Photo by @emmamariej_
Last week we traveled home to Malibu to visit family and my mom surprised Lou with her very own garden at @onesunfarms where she got to plant fruits and veggies and play with her friends in the biodynamic soil🌻
Growing up I remember my mom keeping seeds in her safe which was symbolic of the value of nutritious food and the potential for growth and repair that Mother Nature affords us. Over the past few years she’s turned her home into a biodynamic farm providing food for her community and healing the soil that was previously neglected and void of life.
There is no greater gift we can give our children than a healthy earth for them to dig their hands into and be fed from. The dirt we’ve been conditioned to fear has healing benefits for the immune system and promotes a diverse microbiome.
This quote from Braiding Sweetgrass sums it up…Thank you mom!
“This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone“
