3.17.2016

our no school tuesday


it's a tuesday & the kids had the day off from school due to elections. (elections, ugh. i won't even go there.) i promised them we would take the next free day & pack a picnic & head to the lake. so that's what we did.


we were there for 10 seconds when this happened. face plant. she wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. we laughed first.


thanks snapchat for this one ^^





it was also free cone day at dairy queen so we hit that up after hubs got home & after we voted.
 

dairy queen & democracy...i'm proud to be an american.




xo

find us on snapchat: hellolittlenest

3.07.2016

sometimes i get poetic || motherhood


a monday.
an unlikely hero.
a morning.
the odds are not in this one's favor.
yet here we are.

a blossom.
a sprout.
an unfolding.

a morning sun casting shadows onto the kitchen floor.
a bird with it's song.
a chorus.

a hungry babe awakened from sleep.
mother still in her robe.
babe without pants. without socks.
soft thighs & warm toes.

raised arms to meet mother.

they assume their position.
babe turns her head, lying chest to chest.
her crown warming mother's cheek.
tiny hairs of red lie softly, overflowing tip of baby's ear.
the sweet smell of baby.

dimpled hands grabbing mother's robe.
quietly they lie.

a babe full of milk.
a mother full of gratefulness.
a whispered prayer of thanks.

nowhere to be.

lifted head of baby.
a smile from a tired mother.
a grin from newly toothed baby.
she pulls mother close.

unknown gratitude.
an overwhelming truth.

a day not to be forgotten.
yet a day like any other.

oh, motherhood.
oh, monday.