happy mother's day

to Miha

From the three Z-boys who would be entirely lost without you.

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The one always behind the camera.

You spend your life making other people look beautiful — composing the light, catching the moment, finding the version of someone they didn't know was there. So today the lens is turned around.

You're the one who remembers. Marley's humus toasties. The book Medby was reading three years ago. Which cousin needs a check-in, which appointment got moved, which kid said something funny last Tuesday. You hold all of it, all the time, so quietly that I'm not sure you see how much.

So today is for that. For all of it.

— and for you, just you. te iubesc.

The mama Medby got.

This is the last Mother's Day before he leaves. Two weeks from eighteen, a few months from Syracuse. Whatever the next chapter looks like, the foundation is already poured — and you poured most of it.

He has your fierceness. Your eye. Your way of caring hard about the people he loves and not always knowing how to say it. That came from you.

Whatever he becomes up there, he becomes it because you raised him. Watching that has been one of the great privileges of my life.

And Marley's whole world.

He thinks the sun rises and sets on his mama. He's right.

You are his soft landing — the voice he calls for in the dark, the lap he climbs into without asking, the person who can fix almost anything just by being in the room. With Medby pulling toward the door this year, Marley has needed his mama close. And you've been right there. You always are.

He's going to remember being loved by you for the rest of his life. That's the gift you give him every single day, without ever making it look like a gift.

he is so lucky. so are we all.

A few of our favorite frames of you

for once, you're the one in front of the lens

our person

that smile

always laughing

dragostea mea

mama

the boys' favorite

best eye in the room

our soare

Everything you build.

You build constantly — and most of what you build is for other people. The shop. The photography business. Caring for your mother. A whole home that runs on your attention.

Good Day & Company is closing this year, and that's not nothing. You poured years into that boutique. What you made there — the warmth, the eye, the way customers felt seen the second they walked in — none of that goes away. It just goes into whatever you build next.

That's a kind of love that builds people. And it's built us.

Miha,

You are the heart of everything we have. There's no version of this life I want without you in the middle of it.

Thank you for being Medby's mama as he gets ready to leave. Thank you for being Marley's mama as he holds onto you a little tighter this year. Thank you for being mine, through every move and every hard year and every good one.

Today and every day — we see you. We see how hard you work, how deeply you love, how much of yourself you give to the three of us. Not a second of it is taken for granted.

La mulți ani de Ziua Mamei, dragostea mea. ❤️

— Marc, Medby & Marley