Being in the Picture

I read an article the other day that made me think. It was about moms and how we never want to be in the pictures we take with our kids. We always tend to feel self concious, ethier we don't like the way we look because we feel like we still have to much baby weight on, or we aren't having a good hair day, or we look like a rag muffin that day, or a million other reasons. Or we are always the one who has to take the picture. I personally would much rather have pictures of the cute kids! But the article pointed out how by doing that our kids miss out on seeing us as we grow. They miss out on seeing how we interact with them, the way our face lights up when we are having a good time with them, or just having memories of their mom to be able to look at later in life and remember how their mom was. So I will try harder to be in the picture a little bit more, even if I am not super thrilled about it at the time, I want my kids to have those pictures of me to look back at and remind them of me and the love that I have for them.