So here are a couple of the (many!) pictures we took today. Every year, we have a little photo shoot, and I always drive myself crazy agonizing over which picture to choose. I think what I need to realize is that no one else will see the other options... They will get the card I send, and be happy to have a photo of the kids, and they won't think, Oh! Why didn't she choose photo 119? Jonathan had his head tilted towards Anna, not away, and it was so much better! If I could get my inner critic to just shut up, I would get a lot more accomplished. I second guess myself all the time because I am worried about what other people think, and the reality is this: it really does not matter, and other people really just don't care! More importantly, I need to remember that in 5 years, ALL of these photos will be the cutest thing I have ever seen! With each year that passes, and the kids grow older and taller and further away from babyhood and me, these pictures will seem all the more precious and the time will be remembered all the more fondly. It is like when I stumble onto an old photo from my own childhood. I grab it and look at it real close, savoring every detail, searching the background of the photo for something, anything, like a glimpse of our old couch. Even though that couch was superbly ugly, it still makes me happy to see it, for some reason. Photos are great because they give us a little peek back to the way things used to be. They are like food for our hungry memories. I will love all of these photos one day. Instead of the shoes strewn all over the floor in the background making me mad (because they are ruining the shot!), I will think, Awww! Remember when their shoes used to be that small?
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