"Not everyone will understand your journey.  That's fine. It's not their journey to make sense of.  It's yours."

We all have a story to tell, here is Mary's.  I met this wonderful woman, Mary, a couple years back.   She became a foster parent for a little girl who came to her in the middle of the night, no doubt scared, alone and confused. Neither said it was going to be easy, but they both knew it was going to be worth it.  It comes natural to Mary, motherhood, an absolute experience she grasped from the second she put her eyes on Esmeralda, or Ezzie as they call her.  So fast forward two years, and we now have a family. We spent an afternoon at a park and lake photographing this special time, all while Ezzie loving her pink dress and twirling, and chasing after bubbles, and Mary chasing after their adorable little dog, Lily, who got away every second she could.  They've already got this family thing down!  So it's official, mother and daughter together forever.  That's my kind of love story.