Mishel

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

06/24/2024

Took the kids to a park I took Liam to once. It’s not really a park, but more of a walking area. I took Liam there once to burn some energy. It was just us. A simple moment in time between a mom and her son. Nothing spectacular or phenomenal. But in there, in that moment, it was everything.

Today while on a walk with the kids we passed the park. I almost walked passed it without saying something bc it hurt to even think about it. But my overwhelming desire to feel close to him compelled me to enter the crushing pain with courage.

The kids asked me questions about the day. They asked if I was missing him. They asked if we had fun and I said yes. They asked if they could also have fun in here. I said, most definitely.

We recreated a photo from that day because it felt like that was one way to honor him and include him in the outing. It was nice to talk about him.

05/13/2024

To be their mamma is the greatest gift of all. They’ve opened me up in the most amazing ways. They make me a better person every day. They are funny, fun, curious, bold, kind, strong, feisty, resilient, and so much more.

I am honored and feel the most gratitude every day that I get the opportunity to be their role model, their healer, their joke teller, their teacher, their mamma. I’m so grateful they chose me to be their mom.

My heart forever misses Liam and man oh man do I wish I got the chance to have these adventures with him in the same capacity. But I try to find different ways to mother him. He too makes me a better person and mom every day. I miss you puppy. I wish I could make you laugh, kiss your booboos, watch you compete, perform, or whatever else you’d want to do. I wish we had more lazy Sundays. I wish I could sing the lullabies and teach you to read. I wish so for a lot … thank you for making me a mom first and cracking me open in the most wonderful, transformative way.

I’m so grateful each of you have chosen me to be your mom.

To all the moms out there - no hood is like motherhood. Keep showing up for your kiddos. They’re watching. You’re doing great. To the soon to be moms, my unsolicited advice is - everything will be alright (more than alright). To those missing kids or moms, my heart is with you. To every mother, vet, newbie, or hoping to be one soon - keep going! Happy Mother’s Day!