Hello! Oh, my gosh. I’m so excited to start this new blog. I’ve been wanting to do it for a few months because while I love the work I did for Jennifer Witt Photography, it’s not a business anymore. I enjoy photography but learned my lesson that it is a better hobby than business. It kind of took all the fun of out of it when I worried about what the clients would like/not like, instead of just being true to my styl. Plus, I had so much more to write about than photography and I’d feel guilty posting phone camera photos and would worry about how every little thing would look to every little person (or potential client). So, onwards and upwards!
This summer the writing bug just kept buzzing around me, annoyingly at a times, but I kept shoo-ing it off until this blog was all ready to go. With three little boys running around (or rolling as the case may be for Wesley) it’s taken a little longer to find time to get the blog just the way I wanted. After the boys are all in bed, I am tuckered out and ready to spend some quality time with my man and all the non-essentials were pushed to the wayside. Now that Wes is 6 months, things are calming down and we’ve found a new family rhythm. I had forgotten how long it took to find a new normal but I had also forgotten how you look back and wonder how you could have ever lived differently.
Why “my momma heart”? I say it all the time, usually preceeded with an “oh”. Oh, my momma heart…it leaps with joy to see my boys become kind/silly/smart/hilarious/amazing little people, aches with the growing pains of watching my littles go through the ups and downs of life, is fuller than I ever thought it could be when I watch my boys be brothers, and has changed the way I view the world around me. I can’t wait to put all of those moments out into the universe, if for nobody else but myself and my dearest friends, and I hope you will join us, too. This post from Momastery has been gnawing at me and I know that it’s because I am being called to follow through.
The answer is YES. You should write. Even though everything’s already been said beautifully. Even though there’s nothing new under the sun. Even so. Because there may be nothing new to say, but if you haven’t spoken up yet – then there is a new VOICE to hear. That’s all we have – our voices. No two are the same. No one sees the world QUITE like you do, and no one else can tell us your story QUITE like you could. You are our only chance to know you. You’re it. If you yearn to use your voice and you don’t – we will all suffer for it. Be brave. Be audacious enough to consider that your story is worth telling and your voice is worth hearing. The secret is- it IS. Your story and your voice are worthy of occupying some space in this world. Take it, Sister. Take your space.
Soon I’ll be posting about our 3rd Annual Summer Bucket List! Seriously, this has become one of our all time family traditions. This year might be the first year we actually complete the whole thing! You can check out our first two attempts at our bucket lists for the summer of 2012 and summer of 2013 over on the Jennifer Witt Photography blog.
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