This is a little scary for me... pictures of Carson are sooo much cuter than pictures of the two of us together, and I'm not a photographer by any stretch. But I like the idea a lot. (Click on the picture above to read more about Embracing the Camera.)
I love looking at pictures of myself and my mother and father when I'm small... and I know Carson will love it one day too. Enough of the "I'll take a picture with the baby the next time I dress up" mantra (firstly because I hardly ever dress up, secondly because when I do, I forget to take a picture).
So here I am... embracing the camera for the first time.
Yes, of course I let my child chew on old toothbrushes, doesn't every good mother do that? And, yes, we are sitting on the bathroom floor.
Big, fat, blurry (terrible photographer, remember), open-mouth kiss. Sigh. I don't even care that he slobbered me up and most likely left a little snot somewhere on my face... that's love.
"Mama? What is going on here??" (Oh, snotty nose. This has been a long week of pink eye, sore throats, and snotty noses. Long. Week.)
This is life around here. PJ's, ponytails, smudgy mascara, babies with snotty noses... not perfect or pretty. But absolutely just. right.
I think these pictures are beautiful. Snotty noses, blur, bathroom floor and all. They are real moments that y'all will remember.
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--Emily Anderson
I love it. I've recently decided who cares what I look like or if the baby is wearing a blue handmedown pajama outfit. I am not gonna worry about it any more. That was our life at that moment and that's how it should be remembered.
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