Mishel

09/14/2025

Everyone needs a baby and puppy break. Light and love.

08/15/2025

Same swings, nine years later. Made me think of you.

06/23/2025

Second week of summer camp is starting tomorrow! We have new campers joining us and I’m so excited. I’m so grateful for our coaches and our kiddos!

It’s truly an honor to be able to provide kids with an enriching experience where they can be themselves and have room to grow.

Last week our life skill was: RESILIENCE. They learned how to push through when things got hard and they did a lot of hard things. They learned choreography, breakdancing, jiu jitsu, kickboxing, self defense, math, reading, engineering, and built their own obstacle course. They connected with kids they’ve never met before this camp and it’s so cool to witness the friendships that naturally develop.

Kids just connect.

I personally love kids shed their inhibition for fear of being judged and really get into being silly and being kids.

This week our theme is entrepreneurship. They will learn about money, the history, flexible mindset, product based businesses vs service based businesses and each day they’ll be working toward developing skills/products where they’ll have a chance to present in a “market” at the end of the week.

I want to create real life skills that can help kids in the future.

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06/16/2025

Fatherhood looks good on you. You are the absolute best dad ever. The steady rock that weathers all storms, the one who shows up, the one who plays even when exhausted, the one to teaches by doing, being, embodying… I’m so grateful that our kids have you as their father, dad, pappa… they are lucky. We are lucky. Happy Father’s Day!

12/26/2024

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. Stay safe on the roads.

11/12/2024

Heart is full!

11/05/2024

Back to the final days when Milo was in my belly. Thank you for capturing these moments! I loved every second of this maternity shoot.

09/04/2024

8 years. I have missed you for so much longer than I got to be with you.

It’s not easier. It doesn’t get easier.

I have to find new ways to mother you bc I can’t mother you in the same way I mother your siblings.

One of the many terrible things about grief is the multileveled grief… it’s remember you as you were, missing the you, you would have become, cursing the countless missed opportunities, wondering who I would have been with you here, imagining you and your siblings together, yearning to hold you, kiss you, smell you just one more time.

Then there’s the constant replaying of events in the mind … replaying the day before, to the hours before, to the minutes before… to the after.

Life is split into two timelines - the before and the after. Before the crash and after. Before you were taken and after. Before life shattered and after.

Before and after.

Was there anything I could have done to change the outcome? Was there anything I could have done to save you?

Before and after.

The movie of our life - replays on repeat because I can’t help but think maybe there was some other way this could have gone…

But the only way this could have gone differently is if the woman that killed you hadn’t gotten behind the wheel after drinking.

Before she got behind the wheel… and after.

Don’t drink and drive.

08/12/2024

My Milo - welcome to the world. I’m so in love. I’m so grateful to the medical team at the hospital. I’m so grateful to my incredible doctor for delivering all my babies. This one was especially dramatic bc she broke her foot and had to have emergency surgery 2.5 weeks ago. They told her she would not be able to operate for 6 weeks minimum. But she did it. She made it. For Milo, for Liam, for our entire family. This was so special. We’re bonded for life. I would not trust anyone else to take care of me and baby during this intimate process.

This was my 4th c-section, so risks were higher but everything went beautifully. I’m so grateful. Words cannot describe it.

As for Mr. Milo, I love you so much… obsessed with you. To infinity and beyond. Thank you for choosing us to be your parents.

To my kiddos, I’m so excited for all the adventures with our bigger family. You guys are already such amazing siblings I can’t wait to see you grow into your new roles.

Luna is excited to teach Milo to say “lasagna” and Nico is excited to teach him to sit and walk. They have big plans.

Thank you to the best father anyone could ask for . Thank you for your love, tenderness and support. Thank you for being exactly what this family needs.

Thank you to my body for taking us to the finish line🤯❤️ we did it! I’m grateful for this body for being able to carry, hold, and bring forth these babies. I will take care of you just as you took care of these babies. I will nourish you and give you what you need to continue to be strong. There have been so many changes but you did it body!

And last but not least thank you to everyone involved. Every person that has supported us through this. Every team member at . I see you and I appreciate you. Thank you our friends and family who are helping us watch the kiddos, do a meal train, plan and execute the baby shower, doing last minute maternity shoots, checking in on us, helping out, and just generally being there for us and being people we can count on! Thank you! I love you all.

08/12/2024

07/28/2024

If sleeping were an Olympic sport…

07/27/2024

7 revolutions around the sun with you. Thank you from bringing light back into our world. You are kind, thoughtful, caring, silly, curious, a hard worker, and just an all around great soul.

You ask the best questions. You are a snuggle bug. You dance with all your heart. You are a fantastic brother and friend. You are generous. You have a wonderful heart and brain. Thank you for picking me to be your mamma. You are exactly what this family needs.

I can’t wait for all our adventures. Happy 7th birthday to my Nooksie-roo