I've read several mommy blog posts and articles about moms needing to remember to have their pictures taken, too, and not being forgotten, unmemorialized. We're encouraged to have our picture taken even when our hair isn't perfect and we're wearing ratty clothes. That's a nice thought except....who's going to take the picture? When stuff is going on during the daytime, I'm the only one here to take pictures. I suppose I could always teach Builder Boy how to take my picture. But that still doesn't give us a picture of us as a family.
So I came up with the perfect answer: church. I'm guaranteed to be presentable at church and there are lots of people who we can have take a picture of all five of us. So using my blog as accountability to get me in the habit of having my picture taken, I am going to have a picture taken of our whole family every Sunday we go to church for a year and post them on here. I'm going to call it "Smile!" Sunday.
Here's our first picture:
What a cute idea! I have the same problem as far as pictures go. My husband just doesn't often THINK about taking a snapshot of me when I am doing something with the children like I do.
ReplyDeleteExactly! And while Principal Daddy is pretty good about taking a few pictures when he's out alone with one kid, he doesn't think of it at home.
DeleteIs that @ church?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is very important to be in the pictures it makes them all the more precious to our kids when we are gone.
Yup, at church so we'll have someone to take a picture of all of us.
DeleteI love this. I take lots of pictures also but Hubby never does. I also like my pictures better (lol). But it does make me sad to have do few of our family!
ReplyDeleteYes, Principal Daddy says I always complain about the pictures he takes. ;)
DeleteI love the church solution for getting more pictures of our whole nuclear family because where else are you guaranteed to look nice AND have another person around to take the picture?