These Curtains

Words & Photography
by Ashley Izsak



When I look at these curtains, I smile because they were a week overdue. On the morning of Benjamin’s birth, I had a pretty strong denial going on, thinking that I wasn’t about to have a baby that day. So strong in fact, that I dragged our daughter Alice with me to Ikea to buy curtain rods so my husband could install them before our planned home birth.

When I look at these curtains, I smile because they were a week overdue.

Well, anyone walking by our place that Saturday evening may have seen the flicker of candlelight, the rim of a birth pool and possibly even me, mostly naked. I love how they add just enough to the space, and how their existence ties into such a monumental moment in our lives.