Low Tide Notes | 0016

A Mother's Day recap

May 13, 2026

Happy Wednesday evening. Thank you for letting me grace your inboxes once again.

I just picked up Joan from daycare. She has carrots caked in her nostrils, and she’s wearing Christmas-themed bell-bottoms.

I still, and may forever, have a longing in my being to do more with my days. Touch grass more. Find a way to be outdoors, not behind a computer.

And then I pick up my child, and I look at her crusty-orange nose, and I cannot believe I get to live life as her mother. She is motherfckn joy! She brings color to the monotonous.

Life, is so rich.

Mother’s Day with my baby outside of my womb

Last Mother’s Day I was in NYC with two of my besties. We walked the Brooklyn Bridge, saw a show on Broadway, ate handmade pasta at a small city counter. It was glorious and action-packed, and I was hella pregnant, ergo tired and swollen. Still.

We popped into a shop that Sunday. I bought a little metal-pressed keychain with “&” on it. Joan was in me, I am me — and, I thought. So I commemorated it.

This Mother’s Day Joan turned 8 months old. She slept through the night until 8 a.m. Jack bought Pop-Up Bagels and roses and made me a latte and wrote me a card. We sat on the beach and let Junie’s bootie cool off in the Gulf.

We ended the day with our friends/neighbors/family. “A pleasant evening.” Good food and laughter, our babies on tummy time grabbing hands, about to crawl.

This post is nothing more than a place to note the first of many Mother’s Days, a day that will, in perpetuity, include me in it.

Thank you, Joan, for making me a mom.

I am designing postcards! It’s been really fun!

I love postcards! Sending them, receiving them. I love stamps, too, and stationary and cards and pens. You get it.

While browsing a favorite vintage shop, I got inspired to finally put some postcard designs to the test. Think Florida Vintage, super colorful and fun, but not so dated. Relatable. Something that, if you got it in the mail, you’d say, Great card!

Instagram with buyable designs here.

I have a first print shipment on the way to make sure the designs look as good irl.

And be on the lookout for some floral vintage cards coming soon…

If you haven’t yet, check out some of my past essays: