Mom's Letters: Me as mom

Monday, April 25, 2011

Me as mom

Its hard to get a decent shot of me because I'm usually behind the camera and when I'm not, I'm being mom. I like the shots that I am in because, though I don't look particularly good in some, they capture me in my life as it currently is.

2 comments:

DeeDee said...: LOVE this post! great lookin' kids AND mom!; April 25, 2011 at 3:51 PM
shauna said...: These Easter pictures are amazing. I love them. You make such great memories every holiday. I would love a picture of your family all together -- the first one. It is great!! The boys of your life and the girls of your life are amazing. Claire has changed so much. Her hair is so cute!; April 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Me as mom

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