Get in the Frame!

I posted on Facebook a few months ago about how important it is to 'get in the frame' with your children! .... For those that missed it, I've shared it again below...

I had the privilege of taking some photos this weekend with a lovely friend I've met since having Poppy, with her mum and daughter, Isla.  We did some sticking with googly eyes, tickling with feathers, building blocks and cuddly book reading on the sofa as part of a 'lifestyle' photo shoot at their house.  Isla was so relaxed enjoying time with her mummy and Granny and we got the most lovely natural photos I'm sure will be treasured.

With Mother's day coming soon and another year already into it's second month.. (how did that happen!?) it's time to 'get in the frame'! Don't let another year go by without any photos to remember it by!

'Mummy and Me' Mini Sessions coming soon....!

"I can see you...
everywhere I go I see you...
at the school, the park, the play area, the supermarket
everywhere I go... you are there.

I see you mums that feel overweight, frumpy, tired and stressed out,
no time for yourself to even go to the toilet in peace never mind take a trip to the hairdressers or to the gym.

I see your children, beautiful, beautiful children,
full of innocence and cheeky faces...
I see them changing right before your eyes...
tomorrow they will have altered, not a great deal that you would notice, but they will have changed none the less.

I see the moments that you don't see, I watch with interest the way your child holds your hand, cuddles up to you, waits for you to produce their treat at the checkout in the supermarket.

I see them playing with your hair and whispering I love you, telling you how much they have missed you when you come through the door after a long day at work.

I see you stroking their cheek and kissing the scrapes and cuts on their knees after a taking a tumble in the park, wiping their snotty noses with the sleeve of your shirt...

I see you rolling your eyes when they have asked you the same question repeatedly for over half an hour, yet you take a deep breath and answer them.

I see you putting them before yourself all of the time, I see you looking at the clothes you desperately need and picking something up, then putting it back because the kids will always need something more than what you will.

I see you looking around when your child is having a tantrum because you won't buy them a toy, wondering what others are thinking of you…

I see you sitting through yet another episode of Peppa Pig, drinking a glass of wine whilst checking your watch to see how long is left until bed time.. but you cuddle up and watch it regardless.

I see you reading bedtime stories, with hushed voices and dulcet tones, I see you watch their eyes go sleepy before you kiss them gently on their eye lashes and bid them goodnight, I see you turning your head as you tiptoe to the door, just to take in their beauty once more.

I see you, I see you everywhere...

I see your future, I see your beautiful, beautiful children remember all these moments, I see them telling their grandchildren all about you.. I see their children asking to see a photo of Grandma.

"Oh Grandma never liked the way she looked, she always complained about her weight”, they will say, "Grandma was always too tired and stressed to ever have photos taken”…

I see the albums and albums of photographs, I see them all… yet there is not one of you, zero, zilch, nada….. did you ever exist, like really exist, did you ever realise how important these photographs would be, how much they would be cherished?

You see to exist in photographs is to exist in memories…

Make sure you do…

Lets make a pact, you and I, lets make a date, head to the park, pick some flowers, blow some bubbles, make some dens, let's take a camera and take photos of us all, lets make sure you live in the memories of your children, and their children and their children…" Taken from a shared Facebook post.