Let's Get Married!

Poppins Day, in collaboration with Jeff Marshman, cordially invite you to 

Get Married!

We love weddings and have come up with some fantastic packages starting at $1500.

email us at poppinsday@gmail.com for all the details! 

Cheers and Have a great week!

Poppins Day + Jeff Marshman = The Love Shoot

We are very pleased to announce the, "Love Shoot"

What is a, "Love Shoot," You may ask.

It is a 60-90 minute photo session with you and your dearest....

Photographed by the wonderfully handsome and incredibly talented, Jeff Marshman! 

Whether you've just been engaged, celebrating a special occasion, or are simply in need of some new photos - Jeff is your guy!

Sessions start at $200 and include 20 full res images.

cheers and Happy Weekend! 

The Spring Shoot - Anna & Emma

Another gorgeous spring day for us here at Poppins Day 

So gorgeous there was only one thing to do.... 

Get some friends together and have a photo shoot! 

And Roller Skate!

Enjoy!

   

Personal Work - Kate's Song

Four years ago, we stepped out in faith and started the adoption process. Two years ago, we brought home Kate.

This journey has been more difficult yet more joyous than I could have ever imagined. Is that even proper english?.... 

Today, I made her a video.

And I cried thinking back on everything we have gone through. God is bigger than everything. 

Amen!

Kate's Movie LG from Rae Marshman on Vimeo.

The Spring Shoot

Spent the afternoon with a car full of 8 year old girls. The bulk of our conversations centered around who has lost the most teeth, what the state animal is for Montana, Texas, and California, and who has made it through nearly the entire school year without pulling their, "card" - this last conversation got a little heated.....

And there was the singing. Lot's of singing.

The world of an eight year old girl - absolutely glorious! 

Cheers & Happy Monday!

Lily For Poppins Day!

Spring is here and we are SO happy to finally see some color on the trees!

We have some fun stuff planned for this weekend, can't wait to have a full recap for ya'll on Monday!

Cheers!

P. Day

Monday's Thought: Overcoming mommy guilt

I recently had lunch with a seasoned mom of ten. My goal was to pick her brain as to how to make my children be perfect. I wanted a formula - a solution for this crazy season of life I am currently in. 

As I drove to meet this lovely woman, a thought came into my head. It went like this...

You are searching for something that cannot be found. What you really need is my power in the life of your parenting. What you really need is my Spirit to soften and change the hearts of your children. 

What you really need is more of me.

My raging soul was quieted right there in the parking lot and I felt humbled.

We are so quick to read books and articles as to how we can be better moms. We run hard toward women whom we perceive to have it all figured out and strive so greatly to be just like them - tying our joy and peace to how well we emulate  them each day. This is not all bad. We should read and grow in wisdom. We should seek out those who are seasoned and faithful for advice. However, I fear that we are reading so much and looking at others so intensely, that we fail to see the third and most important part of our parenting journey. We want a formula -  a good work we can do so that we feel successful and accomplished as mothers - not a savior who sustains us in the trench. In doing so, we make parenting our kids about us and not about God's great power working in the heart of our families. 

I know this has been true for me. I hate the day to day struggle. I want the calm sea. NOW!

Praise God for that wonderful thought in my brain as I sat in my car and waited for my lunch meeting. As I pondered the motive of my heart, a  foundation was being laid for the most lovely lunch date in which I came to see that this seasoned mother (that I hoped to call savior by the the end of the meal)  had the very same advice for me.

He is enough for my parenting.

His grace is sufficient.

And as a bonus - he takes my very good work -- which at times equals massive failure -- and multiplies it -- reaping the beautiful fruit of righteousness in the hearts of my little people. 

I simply persevere. trust. hope. wait. love, listen... I seek God first and place my identity as a mom upon the truth of his Word not on my day to day victories or failures.

This is how I overcome mommy guilt and glorify God in my parenting. I feast on the fact that HE is enough and that the same grace which saved me from sin and death, will shine like the morning sun in my home and in the hearts of my children. 

what a liberating thought, my friends!

Cheers and have a great week!

Love, P. Day