I recently started to follow a lovely, sweet blog named Bloom. It's a delightfully, upbeat place to celebrate life and all the joys that come from it. A few weeks ago they featured a photo contest called 'The Art of Mothering.' I read the post and almost every word resonated with me. Here is a portion of the text.
A few weeks ago I was playing tag with my sons in the back yard. As I rounded the corner of the lawn, I caught a sight of how we looked in the reflection of the back window. I saw a blonde woman in her t-shirt and corduroy skirt, laughing as she pretended to chase her sons, with goofy smiles plastered on their faces. And I loved it.
And then I realized something. I have almost no visual documentation of my life as a mother. I have oodles of photos of my boys and a few family photos. But I have almost no pictures of me, doing what I do every minute of every day. No pictures of me wiping my boys' hands, giving them a bath, reading stories to them, walking to the park with them...
And although I did not enter the contest, I did like the idea of turning around the camera more to capture me with my boys. Maybe I will be the only one to love these photos or maybe my posterity will just adore them one day. Either way I am excited to turn the camera around more.
3 comments:
I had the exact same thought and inspiration from another from awhile back!
http://thefairbankstrio.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-in-our-life-with-me-in-it.html
What an excellent point! I bet a lot of moms 'forget' to include themselves in pics of family fun... so busy wanting to document every adorable (and not-so-adorable) moment in their kids' lives that they ignore a huge part of their kids' world: THEM. I had never thought about it that way before. Thanks for sharing!
I love that blog! I starting thinking the exact same thing when I read it and to prove my thoughts started looking through our photos...I don't exist! :)
Hope you guys are doing great!
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