Pictures

We recently had our family pictures taken and I was pretty pleased with the result.  I am not photogenic to put it mildly and to be honest, I don't like that pictures show that I am much bigger in life than I am in my head!  However, I want pictures of me.  I want them with my son and with my husband.  This is in large part because I miss my mom.  My mom destroyed so many pictures of herself and so there are relatively few, and those few are what I have to remind me what my mom looks like.  She died when I was young, and I find that now, after 20+ years, I have to look at pictures to remember.  So, even if I find a picture of myself terribly unflattering, I try to keep it.  Now, I do delete some digital pictures right after they are taken because, well, I do NOT want to be remembered like that.  But, I do want to be remembered.  I want my son to remember that I was with him, that I LOVED being with him.  I want him to see that I loved his father and his father loved me.

Pictures were taken by Lauren at CheapShots Photography.  Thank you Lauren!