Courtney Zimmerman, her husband, and 4 children settled in Southern Oregon 2 years ago after spending 6 years working with orphans in Uganda. Besides holding down the fort at home (which is every bit as hard as you imagine), Courtney is passionate about revealing the wonder of real life. As owner of Carryingwonder Photography, she documents un-posed family life through in-home photography sessions. She weaves together her words and photographs at www.carryingwonder.com. 
Love is a messy ordeal. The stomach bug is roaring through our house as I write this, and you all know how ugly that can be. Ugly. So here we are mopping-up messes off the floor at five in the morning, and sometimes it’s easy to wonder what in the world we signed […]
It’s a two-cup morning,” she said, and off for a refill she went. I followed, because indeed it was.
The mornings after those eternal nights of early parenthood can send us into a tailspin, where everything seems a blur and nothing seems easy. They are the mornings you decide all those mamas […]