I am not photogenic. Never have been. I almost detest having my picture taken. I am usually the one who volunteers to take all the pictures. You are safe behind the camera.
However, looking through pictures, I realize there are very few pictures of me with my kids. This does upset me. I want pictures of me with the kids. Time is fleeting. I want to remember these moments with them. I want photographic evidence that I did exist with these kids.
Yesterday we tried to get ready for church and we were very late. I also had a cake and cookies to take for dessert for lunch and the icing would have melted in the car. We opted to let Xander take a nap and just go straight to Mark's moms for lunch.
We were all dressed for church though. I usually dress us to coordinate as much as I can. No idea why. It is a sickness. We were all dressed and ready to go, so I asked Emma and then Mark to snap a few pictures of me with the kids. Here are the best ones.
Davis has a hard time being still for more than one second.
Mommy and baby
Mommy and her men
Mommy and all her babies
However, looking through pictures, I realize there are very few pictures of me with my kids. This does upset me. I want pictures of me with the kids. Time is fleeting. I want to remember these moments with them. I want photographic evidence that I did exist with these kids.
Yesterday we tried to get ready for church and we were very late. I also had a cake and cookies to take for dessert for lunch and the icing would have melted in the car. We opted to let Xander take a nap and just go straight to Mark's moms for lunch.
We were all dressed for church though. I usually dress us to coordinate as much as I can. No idea why. It is a sickness. We were all dressed and ready to go, so I asked Emma and then Mark to snap a few pictures of me with the kids. Here are the best ones.
Davis has a hard time being still for more than one second.
Mommy and baby
Mommy and her men
Mommy and all her babies
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My dad was the family photographer, and so we have relatively few pictures of him, and certainly not very many of him with his kids or grandkids. It's a big regret - that we didn't get more of him and him with us. And my mom hates having her picture taken, so we don't have a ton of her, either, and the ones we do aren't very good.
I make an effort to take pictures of Eric with our boys, because he is usually the one taking the pics. He's a lot better with a camera than I am, but every once in a while I get a good one.
We have all 6 of us (all 4 of our kids) together so rarely, and we forget to do a family picture. We didn't get one this summer, and I don't know if we will have all 6 of us at Christmas time. *sigh*
I'm bad about being in the pictures, too. We recently had a family celebration and my uncle took the first family portrait of the 5 of us - the first ever since Noah was a baby and he's 8 now!
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