{"id":3136,"date":"2014-04-17T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/our-happy-place\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:08:21","slug":"our-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/our-happy-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Our happy place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being a mother is something I dreamed about my entire life + something that makes me cry almost instantly, when I stop to think about the ways it has changed my life. It is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. It has shaped + molded me into the person that I am today.\u00a0These little people bring me much joy. More than I could ever put into words.\u00a0Deep down, somewhere between this love + my mom-pride, comes a yearning to keep this love all to myself. A desire to protect these perfect little beings from the scariness of the world. To hold them close + never let them go. Because of this passion I have always been a little reserved about letting a photographer come into our home + capture pictures of us. You ask me to take them at the park, a studio, the lake, your house, any place in the world – sure thang. But the minute our home is involved, the guard walls go up\u00a0+ overprotective mom status is slapped on my forehead. \u00a0Our home is my safe haven.\u00a0The place where I go to lock out the rest of the world + soak up the love that we share as a family. I’m putting these feelings out on the table in hopes of sharing how much this place +\u00a0these people\u00a0truly mean to me. I love the time of life that we are in right now + I am so very grateful that I opened our doors for one afternoon so that we will have these memories to look back on forever.<\/div>\n
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In our home, we play, we cry, we color, we pray, we eat, we laugh, we clean, we read, we hide + seek, we dream + we love with a love that isn’t always seen by the outside world. Our walls are scuffed with scooter marks + finger prints cover the majority of our windows. We love to dance in the kitchen + all sleep in the same bed. Also note, I\u00a0take great pride in my vacuum lines. Our home is where we hide from the world, where we learn, where we forgive + where\u00a0spend our waking + sleeping moments as a family.\u00a0<\/span> My element, my people, my home – – – my happy.<\/span><\/div>\n
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My very favorite people, in our very favorite place.<\/div>\n
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This is my very favorite\u00a0Sonnet James dress<\/a>. I love that i<\/span>t allows me to continue to play\u00a0+ to clean\u00a0+ to chase without skipping a beat. I was so thrilled to work with some of my dearest girlfriends,\u00a0Shelby<\/a>, Erica <\/a>+\u00a0Lindsey<\/a>, to capture a place or a\u00a0moment that means the most to each of us. The minute I saw the BRAVE video from Sonnet James I knew we were a match made in Heaven. Remember my love for that song? click here<\/a>, if not.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Right now is one of my favorite motherhood phases of life thus far. I’m not saying that I don’t look forward to nap time when I get two extra minutes to enjoy my grapefruit in silence, but these boys, they truly are my very best friends. They are my favorite part about me. I am ever so grateful for Jon, who works hard during the day so that I can stay home + take care of our boys. We would never make it without him. I love that Jonah looks after Riggins\u00a0+ sprints to his crib every morning. I love that Riggins laughs harder at Jonah than at anyone else. I love that they scream for joy when Jon gets home from work + that they have his “park” shoes waiting on the back step ready to go. I love that they need to be loved\u00a0+ enjoy our attention more than any toy in the world. I am forever grateful for Sami Jo<\/a> for coming over to take these pictures of us. She has become one of my very favorite friends + is one of the most humble\u00a0photographers I’ve ever known. She also\u00a0doesn’t mind if you don’t have your make up on yet when she gets to your house. (uhhhhhhh- – -oops)\u00a0I have learned that we really don’t need much to make us happy in life. Just gotta find what triggers your happy\u00a0+ stick with it. Life is too short to do much else.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a mother is something I dreamed about my entire life + something that makes me cry almost instantly, when I stop to think about the ways it has changed my life. It is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. It has shaped + molded me into the person that I am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SJ_zps63328093.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mhS8-OA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5883,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/5883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}