The contractions started in the wee morning hours the next day. I got up and made pastry dough. That afternoon, between the pains growing ever closer together, I prepared berries for the filling and rolled out the crust. I read the labour\/delivery chapters in\u00a0What to Expect While You’re Expecting<\/em> while the pie baked (could this be real labour?). We headed to the hospital, leaving behind a pie cooling on the kitchen counter and the whole world before. Anna Leigh, our beautiful baby girl, was born exactly two weeks early on June 27th at 4:16 in the morning. We marveled over her every perfect feature, fumbled completely, and ate pie. Every year, the smell of strawberries in the sun returns me to the incredible day that I became a mama, thirteen years ago. I could never have imagined a life so sweet.<\/p>\n 1. Strawberry Girl 2. 11 months 3. Rookie 4. Happy Pickers 5. Sweet Seven 6. Dragon Obsessed 7. First Dip 8. Just for Looks 9. Beautiful 10. Heaven<\/p>\n The 10 on 10 project is a personal photography project where I capture 10 images on the 10th of each month. With an incredible group of photographers from around the globe, the goal is to share a glimpse of life. Each fresh month is a reminder to pick up the camera and document daily moments with the freedom to create candid imagery. As always, I love to hear from you so feel free to leave me a comment. Thank you for visiting. Enjoy the rest of the circle starting with Kylie Dunlop’s 10 on 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n Strawberry picking is a summer-start tradition for my family. I’ve gone every summer, to a number of different berry patches, for as long as I can remember (thank you, Mom). I love everything about it: the pleasing little ‘pop’ sound when you pick a perfectly ripe berry, all that happy sampling, sweet juice running down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-my-own","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"webjuly10on10\"](\"http:\/\/www.laurareive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/webjuly10on101.jpg\")
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