I'm Thankful For

....the wonderful opportunity I have to be a woman and mother.

The human body amazes me. That a woman and man can create a life and the body can grow in the mother and that she can later sustain his life outside the womb. I just love it! Nursing has always been a wonderful bonding experience for me and my kids. Only I can provide that for them and only I can experience this bond. I wanted to capture my feelings on nursing and knowing that Eli was slowly weaning himself, I knew I had to get it soon. As it turns out, this picture is the very last time I nursed him and will probably ever nurse. I set up the shot and asked Sophie to stand on the couch and take a picture. It was intended to be for my own memory to look back on, but was amazed at how she captured the exact emotion for me so I had to share. I hope you recieve it the way it was meant. It has been difficult to move on from this stage in raising my children. I am having difficulty expressing it, but I look at the picture and it says it all. Him looking up at me as I hold his hand, the sweet tenderness of that connection. Words, in this case, cannot express, but a photo can.