I read a really great article last night about thinking you're too fat for pictures. I think even my skinny friends have had that beached whale moment in front of a camera. (Please say I haven't dreamed that!). It was basically saying that you can't go back and relive those memories. Forget about the extra 5, or heck, 50 pounds. Take the damn picture! Wow, it was so true and refreshing to read.
I have really tried to make sure that I'm in occasion pictures instead of taking all of them. Some are great, some are back-fat city (OY!) but you know what? My children are smiling in every one. Well, or making odd seizure faces from picture over-load! Either way, I would give anything to have more childhood pictures with my mom. ANYTHING. I cherish the few that I do have.
Reading that article just made me renew my feelings on continuing to take pictures even when I feel like I look terrible. My kids won't see my size, they will see how much fun we had on those days. How much their father and I lived our lives for their every breath. How wanted, loved, and celebrated they were each day from the moment we learned that they were on the way.
Okay, sappy mommy is heading out. Snarky mommy will return tomorrow, following a impromptu play room photo shoot:) and a piece if pie. Skinny pictures, be damned!
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