What I'm Doing Different

I remember being asked what I would do differently as a parent from what my parents did. If you know me at all, you know how much I revere my parents, so this question was hard to answer. I thought and thought about it, and finally came up with this: I will take lots of pictures of my kids and keep up with organizing them.

There is one thing my kids will never accuse me of doing... Not Taking Pictures! I'm probably so camera happy because there are about five pictures of my whole childhood. I'm the ninth kid in a line of ten, so it's easy to understand why. Also, in my parent's defense, they recorded our lives in the way that mattered most. Dad kept meticulous journals and there are volumes and volumes of them. When each of us kids got married he was able to put a book together with all the excerpts from his journal where we were talked about, and then present it to us as a wedding gift! Mine is a treasure. My husband and my kids are able to read all about how I was as a kid.

So here is the most recent evidence that I take pictures of my kids. I've been taking less pictures lately than usual because I'm frustrated with my camera and my photography skills. My camera is so bad that I usually only like to take them with Joseph's phone. Bad ones are better than none at all though!