06/24/2026
Think about the things you’ll look back and be so thankful to remember. It’ll be the big things, of course — your high school graduation, the birth of your kiddos, the vacations, your wedding.
What you won’t be able to recall are the nights waking up to a baby who can’t settle in — that needs a feed and the soft touch of your cheek to theirs — and how their body presses into yours as they drift off. It will be the days you simply can’t recall because of their ordinariness. To you, right now, “just another day”. How they looked when they were in their high chair for a meal with food smashed carelessly all over their face (/belly/back/hair). How fast they could make a lap now around the downstairs after years and years of practice.
For me, it’s Ayla repeating He-Man’s “I have the powaaa!” mantra, or adding “peppenmoni” to our “soup” this morning. And Shep’s epic popstar face when he belts out the chorus (there’s really only a chorus) of his new “hit single”: “Together through the skies”.
It won’t make much sense to anyone else. But to you, those moments are a legacy built from pure, unobstructed, unending and unconditional, beautiful love.
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Just a few of these moments captured on film + digi for the Ghoddousi family — some of my very, very favorites. 🤍