The time to capture images of your family is NOW!
It's been a minute since I've posted here. There are more than a few reasons, but perhaps the most consuming one is because in September of 2023 my oldest son was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Needless to say this changed the trajectory of many things.
Honestly, one of the first things that I knew I wanted to do when I heard his diagnosis was to get some images of our family before he started chemo. I was immediately keenly aware that everything was about to change. No matter what else transpires, life is never going to be quite the same. There was in my mind/heart such a craving to freeze this moment. To have images to hold on to that captured all of us before we started down the road looming ahead.
I had been procrastinating getting current family photos taken for awhile...like, 8ish years. I know.
It's hard to make it a priority because: 1) my kids don't absolutely LOVE getting photos taken, 2) there are many moving parts to coordinate now that they are older and living their own lives, 3) I always feel stumped about locations because I know of so many and I can't choose, 4) I'm always worried that someone else will feel stressed taking our photos since we're in the same industry and 5) clothes! (It's a legit struggle to figure out what we should all wear that's comfortable, not clashing and looks good.) So many things seem to stand between me and wonderful family photos that I'll never regret having!
Still, I jettisoned all my excuses and booked a mini session with our amazing friend Karina who serendipitously had a time slot open for us!!
Here is what I want to encourage you with, the time to book a photo session for your family is NOW! Not when life has margin, or when you have everything figured out, or when you've lost 5 pounds, or when that front tooth finally comes in, or when the stars align.. it's right now in the middle of the messy, the awkward, the busy, the uncomfortable, beautiful, hard one of a kind life you're living!
Alex doesn't look like this exactly today... he's got less hair. And when his hair does grow back I have no idea if it's going be what it was. I know for certain that none of us will be exactly as we were...walking through the valley of cancer does that, but I am sooo thankful that we seized this moment, and had these images captured. That's something I'm never gonna regret.
