Meet Eleanor Mary Berning

I’ve been very slow to photographing our new little girl because it’s so hard to step away from the perfect moments long enough to capture them. I’ve wondered all my life what it would be like to be a mom. I’ve wondered what it would be like to see a child looking back at me and know she’s mine. And once that child arrived and looked back at me…I realized…I needed MY mom! Ben went back to work this week, and Grandma Terri came to town. It was a dream week. We three girls cleaned, set up Eleanor’s nursery (she was 5 weeks early, and the nursery was still on some distant future’s to do list), wrapped Christmas gifts, and flew through our heaps of congratulatory chocolates. Grandma got us caught up on laundry and made the apartment that Nora isn’t allowed to leave because of a still-developing immune system feel cozy and fun again. Before Grandam left for home today, I snapped a few treasures. My mom and my daughter. I can’t believe these girls are mine, and I can’t believe I got to live these moments.
Eleanor is inside of a Christmas stocking my mom made for her out of fabric she had been saving from HER mom’s collection. Eleanor’s Great Grandma Irene would have been so thrilled to see her Christmas flannel made into this special stocking. We love it, and I’ve never been so thrilled about the gift inside a stocking! Coming up next, those cute cuddly close ups of Miss Eleanor Mary Berning, and maybe a few with mom and dad. 🙂 Welcome to the world, Honey. You’re just in time for Christmas.