#storybloom

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My perfect 3 year old! 💕✨ I love you, I love you, I love you. Happy birthday, Story Bloom. You are everything I always imagined you'd be, just intensified by a hundred 😜. You keep us on our toes with your wild determination and (sometimes overwhelming) independence... You're always smirking like you've been here many, many times before. I'm so lucky to be here with you now, to watch you grow with your brother, to see your gentle hand touch every baby foot you can reach, any animal that will stop long enough for a hello. You have an incredibly kind heart, but also this long burning fire running through you... no idea where you get that from 😘. Oh baby girl, you are so wonderful and we're going to have so much fun setting life ablaze ...3 going on 13, but feel free to slow down anytime. ❤️ 🍦 🎈 xoxoxo always and forever, your mama llama #storybloom

[robins-nest]

someday i get to tell her where she comes from. i'll show her pictures of my childhood and compare them side by side to her own. we might laugh at how different they are, or smile at their likeness. i'll buy her things like trendy pants and remember what it was like wishing to fit in... instead of telling her i want her to do her own thing. i'll hold her close to my heart when her own heart breaks, pick her up from school when she can't stand to be around all that untamed adolescent energy. i'll let her know her mormor did the same thing for me. we will talk about how ridiculous some things are sometimes without reason or sense. i'll take her hand and move forward, try my best to teach her that despite the seemingly endless chaos of the heart, it will steady... it will find light and anchor... no to anyone or anything, but within herself. and i will do things like make sure she wears the right socks for long hikes, bore her in the grocery about raw honey and lemons, and secretly adore getting to spend time with her even with the pouts. one day i hope she will think of these things with a silly love for me, chuckle with her brother about how, "that's mom." but most of all i hope that when the cracks feel like valleys, and rivers look like oceans, that she carries on knowing she will conquer it all. i hope that everything she ever needs lives on strong in her spirit, not only because i know it's there, but because she believes it more than anyone else. #storybloom #tribedemama #motherhoodrising

[robins-nest]

17 months, 3 weeks and 2 days postpartum. the weight around my middle fluctuates, the definition of my muscles changes, but my skin is always soft… and i love that. i want the place where my babies bury their little toes, blow raspberries, and wrap their arms around me to be like velvet. i want it to be as comforting as it first was to them in the womb, regardless of how much time has passed on the outside. and on days when i wish for anything else, i am quick to remind myself of the two breathing beings who made me soft, and the magic in which that softness came from. ✨ #takebackpostpartum #storybloom #wryterpillar

[robins-nest]

and you, my little bloom. a novel awaits you with mystic and magic spewed on every page. #storybloom #mothersdaughter

[robins-nest]

to be content with what you have and not look into the future for what you don't... therein lies great magic. ✨ #storybloom

[robins-nest]

take us back to the sea #storybloom

[robins-nest]

My baby girl, 15 months old already!