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The Blessed Little Life | Motherhood and Other Stories Mother/ Storyteller

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All Images and Content Copyrights of Hannah Lacy 2015-2019.

Motherhood is a lot like a wave. Sometimes it carries you great distances and you feel weightless. Sometimes you feel like your drowning and you can’t keep your head above water. Sometimes the enormous responsibility of all the tasks that come with raising another human over takes you. Other times the rhythms and seasons of you and your children’s lives begins to form a beautiful pattern that you never want to end. We ride waves of longing and waves of loneliness. We ride waves of hopes and waves of fear. We wish for change and yet wish for everything to stay the same. We ache for independence for our babes and simultaneously mourn the outgrowing of their clothes, their toys, their babyhood. Riding these waves...split second decisions and hair pulling decisions. Spontaneous days and monotonous days. Waves of desperation and waves of joy. Riding hopes for tommorow and relishing the beauty of today. Feeling breathless from these waves of motherhood and breathing it all in the same ✨ 📷 photo by my biggest boy elijah💛 #motherhoodintheraw

And just like that summer’s fading...✨🌻🍂. I think we have about 16 days till my oldest starts preschool and around 20 till my first day of school and I’m honestly not feeling ready for any of it. The past month has been a bit silent here as I’ve seen 3 out of the 5 specialists I need to see, had like 6 or so dr.apts, two ultra sounds (not the pregnancy kind) and got started on another prescription. It’s been a lot. But God has been good to our family in the midst of it, and we are eternally grateful for our family and friends and friends who are like family 💛 going to savor a little bit more of gentle summer even tho advertisers are bombarding me with fall /Christmas/Halloween and back to school supplies 🤦‍♀️😆 #slowliving_create .p.s lots more sunflower photos coming so hang in there 🌻☀️🍂🤷🏻‍♀️
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My biggest boy-Elijah💛 filling my life with light and joy since day one ✨ He’s been living his best summer life lately borrowing my sun hat and eating popsicles while we water the garden and feed the chickens. Love his squinty eyed smile and kind kind heart ❤️💛✨#memoirsofmotherhood #clickinmomshunt19 #sunhat #popsicle
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Instagram caption: Zinnias and babies for daze 🌱🌺 Alternate caption: teething and toddlerhood has been rough lately. But despite having little man coming into our bed at 430 am last night and having to clean up all levels of gross today 🤢I think this is one of my favorite ages. He is obsessed with hats ( I think because his dad wears them), loves to bring me shoes and say “go,go,go”. Loves to say please and ask for snacks, also loves to say no. Loves to see the chickens and pet the cat when we go outside. Has started singing happy birthday at bedtime and it just the best whirlwind of joy and energy and excitement. ❤️💛Ezekiel, Ezekiel how I love you so 💛 #memoirsofmotherhood (very last photo taken by his big brother❤️) 18 months is full of fun and keeping on my toes 😍 moms- did you/or do you have a favorite age? 🌺🌱
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Celebrating Monday and a bunch of radishes we dug up from the garden ☀️🌱 radishes have been the most successful vegetable we have grown to date. Out of the 4 gardens we have planted only 2 have grown. Out of all the vegetables we’ve tried planting- carrots, root vegetables, spinach, lettuce- the radishes and corn are the only ones that have made it to the harvesting stage. I could say that we’re really bad gardeners or vegetable growers or I could say that we are really successful radish growers (and flower growers)🌺 The garden is teaching me lots of life lessons as of late. Anybody else finding hidden lessons in your garden? 🌱💛 #inmygarden .
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“The Easeful days, the dreamless nights, The homely round of plain delights; The calm, unambitioned mind, The simple stuff of summer time “ Aster Austin Dobson. We dined al fresco tonight ✨Grilled chicken, corn, zucchini and rice. All of us on the front porch. A happy sweet moment. Just a photo I took on my phone but decided it needed a place here. The simple stuff of summertime☀️💛 #makespace
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My biggest boy, his beautiful brown eyes, and a sunflower from our garden 🌻 ~July 2019~ #memoirsofmotherhood
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My husband took this photo for me Sunday. The day I celebrated my 4 year cancer-versary. I know that seems like a weird thing to celebrate. The exact day I had surgery to have my thyroid removed because of cancer. The day that life, motherhood and everything became so much more challenging. The diagnosis came shortly after my 21st birthday, I had to stop nursing my 9 month old because of it. I was incredibly blessed to have my second son just two short years later and have a mostly healthy pregnancy without a thyroid and nurse him for 14
Months- when an anaphylactic reaction, two trips to the ER, a blood clot and several other issues forced us to stop just 5 months ago. And now 5 months later I’m still dealing with issues from that incident. Honestly sometimes it’s all really frustrating. A lot of days I am battling a multitude of symptoms. But mostly I feel extremely fortunate and grateful and thankful that in the midst of it all I am still here, able to do daily life with my family. Able to give God the glory. Still believing for healing, still doing my part, still pursuing wholeness and recovery. All this to say wherever you find yourself today -God isn’t afraid of your pain. People tend to shy away from uncomfortable feelings and situations. but He is no stranger to it. He will sit with you in it and if your willing I’ve learned- He will also walk you through it✨ #thyroidcancersurvivor
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“Just living is not enough” said the butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower”- Hans Christian Anderson 🌻 I couldn’t agree more. We had no idea 3 months ago when we planted these sun flowers how much joy they would bring us every time we see them outside!💛 my husband even said when he pulls into the drive away from work and sees them it brightens his day. Reason 1.3586669 billion to have a garden 😊. In all seriousness though taking and posting this photo means I’m finally completing an excercise from @me_and_orla book chapter 1. Making a list of moments in your day that bring you joy. Then taking a photo. Seeing sunflowers=joy. 🌻💛☀️(#clickinmomshunt19 #garden #wildflowers) #hashtagauthentic #inmygarden
P.S. inspired by @whimsyandwhile beautiful moody garden shots, go check out her feed✨) .
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“Can we snuggle?” “Can we play outside?” “Can we read a book?” “Can we have a smoothie?” Can we make a snack?” “Can we do a craft?” - Just a small handful of the questions I’m asked by my sweet boys on a daily basis. Motherhood- it’s a daily constant non stop stream of questions/wants/needs/ and pulling that requires every ounce of strength/patience/and energy that a human being can possess. I’m trying to say yes as much as I can in this sweet season of little people, constant needs, constant exhaustion and long sunny days ✨ we’ve been trying to balance out summer fun with days in rotation. One day for planned schedule activities/ play dates/errand running etc then a day for at home play/outside time/learning/ cleaning etc. some days are busy back to back or slower back to back but it’s been a good rhythm for us so far, although truthfully some days have just been crazy. Moms- what are you doing to keep your sanity this summer?💛( also one for #clickinmomshunt19 #family ) #memoirsofmotherhood
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Two little boys holding hands and picking blackberry’s this weekend 💛✨🌱 Behind every photo and memory there is likely to be a tired mother, buckling car seats packing bags with all the essentials one needs for small children, carrying a 1 year old a mile and back- and still it’s worth it ❤️ planting the seeds of love, togetherness, gratefulness and celebration. Mamas buckle those car seats, pack those bags, carry those babies and make those memories 💛✨ #memoirsofmotherhood
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I love you forever, I like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be ✨ smushy baby face kisses at the berry farm today 💛 18 months is exciting and exhausting, but I wouldn’t give up the joy on your face when you try something new or the curiosity in your voice when you point to something And say “oooooohhhh” for anything.ever 💛 #memoirsofmotherhood
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