07/18/2026
I spent so many years waiting for the moments that felt worth remembering that I forgot I was living in them.
When I was pregnant for the very first time, I’d walk the aisles of Target dreaming about becoming a mom. Since then, I’ve been there for postpartum necessities, newborn clothes, birthday gifts, medicine runs in the middle of the night, school supplies, and all of the ordinary little things six babies somehow always need.
It feels like a second home to us.
And if I’m being honest, I wish I had documented more of it when they were younger.
I think we put so much pressure on ourselves to capture the milestones that we forget our lives are mostly made up of Tuesdays at Target, grocery store runs, and little traditions that don’t feel important until they’re over.
Today, I got in toe frame while shopping with my teenager. There was a time I would’ve thought he was too old for a video like this. But I know someday he’ll be in his 20s, and I’ll watch this back wondering how he was ever this young.
Motherhood has a funny way of making us miss the years we’re still living in.
The truth is, you’re in the younger years right now. One day you’ll look back at today and realize these were the days you were going to miss.
So document the ordinary things too. The places that feel like home. The routines you’ll someday forget. The moments that don’t seem worthy of taking up storage on your phone.
Because one day, they’ll become the memories you’d give anything to have back.
That’s the entire reason I created Mom in the Frame. Not just to create perfectly curated photoshoots, but to make sure you’re in the memories…the big moments, the little moments, and all of the beautifully ordinary ones in between.
Because motherhood deserves to be documented long after the newborn days are over.
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