It occured to me today, that the one reason we have not had a professional family picture done in...years, is because of the scheduling issue. Different lives, jobs, activities, schedules and so on and so on and so on. It is a defeating feat trying to gather all of your loved ones together on one particular day and time, so we can all stand there, get our bad moods on camera and pretend we still like eachother. Have you ever seen "Everybody loves Raymond," the episode where they capture the "real," family experience? Yeah, (with the in-laws or out-laws (so to speak)) that's us. Thank goodness this isn't a reunion.
Oh, good heavens one even has to make sure they don't eat too much in the days prior to this blessed event, so as not to capture every single additonal "holiday," pound.
I must say that in addition to all of these hurdles to overcome, is the ever so wonderful color coordination or lack thereof for our family. In the process of trying to schedule everyone for this event I've heard every excuse or complaint, from, "It doesn't fit," "I'm wearing it anyway," to "I'm not taking pictures with you guys."
Forget trying to purchase matching or at least coordinating clothing, it's too expensive. That's probably why last time, we each wore white t-shirts and blue jeans. I love easy!
The best part about this family portrait (that hasn't even taken place yet) is the photographers.
I'm sure that with our patchwork-of-a-quilt attire they will use their creative genious to edit, fade, zoom out or whatever, to make us look fabulous. In this I have perfect faith.
I have even more faith that we'll all look really great together and that the queen of the family, er go...me! Will look 12 years younger, 5 kids thinner and 1 wonderful family portrait-Happier!
Love ya, JustMeJustMom
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