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- When I was wee
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- Her eyes are the same amazing ones…despite the hair
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- Don’t drool
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- Love
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- Toes
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- Snooze for him
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- Snooze for me
Have you guys read this amazing blog yet – The Mom Stays In the Picture? I loved every word. She’s talking about how there are no picture of her with her kids and how this needs to be more of a priority, regardless of how she feels about her own appearance. I saw the author, Allison Tate, on the Today Show last week. What resonated with me and why I raced to read the blog was, she said, ‘I want them to see how I look at them.’
I have very few pictures of me with my mom. Very, very few. This is the result of being the fourth kid who grew up in a time where there weren’t cameras everywhere. I do have some video from when we were younger but I don’t think I have more than ten pictures of my mom and I together. I would love to have some now.
I also don’t have a ton of Will and I. I have major quality over quantity though. I had an awesome photo shoot when he was wee with Emma Smallbone at Barebone. I love these pics because they were taken after my postpartum. I saw them as our victory shots. I was finally getting what the fuss was about being a mom. I was fascinated by every bit of that kid and Emma captured that.
My friend Lindsay happens to be an incredible photographer… and we just happen to hang out with her a ton. Because of that – I have so many remarkable pictures of Will and she’s captured some of us that he will always have to know how I look at him – often with awe, gratitude and disbelief.
But they are pictures. What I want to challenge you to do is not only get in the picture with your kids but write somethings down. Keep a journal – not every day, not every week but when something awesome happens or when something makes you laugh, write it down. People ask me why I blog – and besides the obvious creative outlet, I blog for Will. He’ll be able to read back and know all about us – where we’ve been and what our dreams are. These blogs are my ‘pictures’ for him. As a motherless mother, I can tell you, I so wish I had something like this from my mom. Don’t misinterpret. She was amazing and I have incredible memories but oh, to be able to sit and read how she felt about me or what I did that stuck out to her would be paradise.
So. Take Allison Tate’s advice and get in the picture. And my advice? Caption those shots.
Will you?
One word…selfies. 😉
an easy thing that I was told, and I did for years but did fall off the wagon… is to write a letter to your child every year on their birthday, talk about the year, what mattered to them, how they had grown, and save it all for some future date. My kids still have not read theirs……
if i didn’t take any pictures there would be no pictures. they’re all of my hubby and the girls since i’m the one behind the lens. i was trying to find a shot of myself for something and the best i could do was from 4 years ago. i need to take this advice and SOON!
SAME. I am always holding the camera. And then sometimes Spouse is all, “oh, I could take your picture?” but the whole thing looks so posed and uncomfortable. Ugh.
Love this Sarah……not just because I was a part of documenting your journey. But also because I struggle with getting in the pictures and being a part of the memory.
I have started my Project life journey this week { http://www.beckyhiggins.com/ } because I need to start taking those pictures and making something out of them. And it makes it incredibly easy to do so. Thanks for just reenforcing the idea.