I was never much of a meatloaf lover as a child... then my mom found a recipe that changed my mind. It was the best meatloaf I had ever tasted and I married a man who loved it as well. Then we started eating in a simpler way and that recipe had to say goodbye.
These pictures were not planned or posed. Emotions flooded me, like they so often do, and my camera just happened to be in my hand. As the loss washed over me, my heart screamed for me to capture this... not a stormy sob-session, just the quiet mourning that a mother's heart goes through every day that her child is not with her.
Even though summer is, quite honestly, my least favorite season (I'm sorry... autumn, spring, and winter just have more perks!), there are still so many amazing and fun times to be had.