Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Behind

Thanks to a great project with Gilt Baby and Kids (more to come on that later!), I was asked to deliver a photo of me with ALL THREE kiddos.  After spending what felt like hours trying to find a great photo of the four of us, this is the ONLY photo I have from the last 7 months where everyone is smiling.


7 months and one photo.  Pathetic.

Do you ever find that you get lost BEHIND the camera and rarely actually show up in any of the photos?  I know I have mentioned this before but I think that I am so consumed with getting great shots of everyone else (there were a TON of the hubby with all three of them), I completely forget to hand the camera off to someone else so I can get in a few.

What is even more pathetic from this shot is that it is from my little sister's rehearsal and is the ONLY photo that I have of me with the kids from the entire wedding weekend.  Like I said.  PATHETIC.  

Yes, I want to have thousands of memories of my children, but I also want them to know that I was actually there.  I have got to get better at this.  Do you feel the same?

Worst part, Gilt needed a horizontal photo.  Believe me, I hate being the person that has to tell Gilt I cannot deliver.  Will anyone notice that Baby Girl looks about 12 months old in the photo I sent?  UGH.

On the plus side, this photo has motivated me to wear this exact outfit tonight to a 40th birthday dinner.  This proves that I wear something more than once, regardless of what my hubby says.

3 comments

  1. Oh, I hear you! I just edited almost 200 photos of a trip we took last week and I'm in 4 of them. ;) One thing I've started doing is treating myself to a photo shoot every year right around Mother's Day with my two boys. This way I get a beautiful set of photographs - and I'm in them (and not taken by my hubby who has zero photography skills)!

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  2. It's sad, but the same is true for me. I'm always behind the camera capturing the great shots. If I am in them at all, it's because I did a self portrait with the camera hoping to get a good picture of me and my son.

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  3. Same thing here! My husband looks like a single father! I just posted a self portrait on my blog today! The only way I get pictures of myself - ha!

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