ON ADVENTURE

  

"to live would be an awfully big adventure" 

the thing i loved best about living in idaho was that adventure seemed to be around every corner.

truthfully, my little town in idaho was quaint and lovely, but boring as all get out. it wasn't until i decided to find adventure that anything interesting ever happened to me. but once i looked for it, there it was! i never had so many adventures in my life as i had while living in idaho. 

these days i live in the hustle and bustle of new york city, where adventure is unavoidable. you find adventure on your way to the grocery store and on your way home from the post office. just leaving your apartment you encounter several varieties of adventure. you come home at night and your feet ache from adventure. 

these days we have a little ritual, my huckleberry and i. in the mornings, we eat our oatmeal from the living room floor. between bites i say, "huck, what are we doing today?" he looks up at me with oatmeal smeared across his mouth and he smiles, kicks his little feet, and flops his mouth open like a fish, which is huck for "more oatmeal!"

okay, but one of these days when i ask him that question--"what are we doing today?"-- he will know that the options are limitless. we can do anything in the world he can dream up. visit the zoo? wander a museum? fly a spaceship? break into the plaza hotel? go on a grand adventure down fifth avenue? 

you got it, kid.

you've heard the saying "the sky's the limit." to me, that's nonsense. the skies were conquered long ago. the truth is, your gut's the limit. nothing can hold you back from the life of your dreams but your own self. i learned that the honest way in little old idaho, when it seemed nothing could go right for me until i made it. and boy, am i glad i did.

if i accomplish nothing else as a mom, i hope to teach huck that you can get anywhere you need to go with your own two feet, that nobody owes you nothing, that your word is your bond, and that adventure is what you make of it. when we're out together i like to keep him as close as i can get him, so i can tell him all about everything we see, so i can plant a million kisses on that cute bald head, and because he's only this small once, and i'm going to breathe in every last second of it.

sling: c/o sakura bloom essential linen in driftwood wheat

top: c/o lilla p

sunglasses: c/o selima optique

skirt: vintage

shoes: ross

belt: tjmaxx

huck's onesie is made by carters.

photos by the always lovely kaitlyn ray of two if by sea photography.

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