Tomorrow morning, bright and very early, our speech therapist-who doubles as a photographer-will be taking our family holiday photos for us. Those who follow my blog know that I am usually behind the camera and rarely do you see photos of all four of us together. Or the four of us looking halfway decent! I imagine she has her work cut out for her tomorrow.
She has even guided me out of dressing the boys in matching outfits (that was a hard talk-down) but she convinced me to think out of the box and so we have some new variations on outfits.
All these photographs I collect are my little treasures. Yeah, Michael and Tom bug me about how many photos I have on my computer (A LOT!) but this is what I have of fleeting moments that are gone before I have gotten the chance to truly savor them. The chunky cheeks that Ian had just a year ago are becoming chiseled. Connor looks more like Ian every moment. His photos are turning more poetic as he finally emerges with beautiful eyes looking, smiling and living fully. No more hollow glances and quiet frustration. They grow before my eyes and I cannot even see it until I examine each photo. And each time I see my photos, delightful surprises abound.
So, I am thankful for this record of time and thankful that we do have megapixels, SLR and all the goodies I honestly cannot comprehend. (or have money for!)
Yet to have the four of us together, as we never will be again....I know I will be grateful this opportunity came along. I will be examining them with stories in my head, poems to write, awakening memories that will be welcomed back with fondness.
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
Aaron Suskind
Aaron Suskind
4 comments:
I don't think I can ever harrass you into dwindling down your photos's to 100 anymore after that beautiful sentiment- and of course some of these photos are making it into the baby books right? especially connor's!!
also liked the Oh lordy, my dad's brother always says that!
That's a great thing to be thankful for -the opportunity to have a "family" photo done at least once a year! That will provide so much joy in the years to come as you look on it and look back then into how your life, the boys, Tom -all of you were this year, that year, etc. Just a wonderful, wonderful memory maker.
Beautiful. I think it's wonderful to keep a record for yourself and for your kids when they are older. Funny about the matching outfits. Glad you are being persuaded to expand your possiblities. Thank you for the idea of daily gratitude posts. I'm enjoying the practice.
I can't picture the boys not matching. It is unheard of. I am betting the picture will be great.
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