Wonderful Article for Mamas (or anyone) Avoiding Pics

Whether you're a mom, a dad or have no children, there's probably someone who will want pictures to have a visual memory of you. I doubt that when you're gone, they'll look at it and see your double chin, that pimple on your forehead, or how fat you thought your arms looked. They'll see YOU and smile. I'm so very guilty of picture avoidance but I'm working on it. Love this article and wanted to share.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-tate/mom-pictures-with-kids_b_1926073.html

"I'm everywhere in their young lives, and yet I have very few pictures of me with them. Someday I won't be here -- and I don't know if that someday is tomorrow or thirty or forty or fifty years from now -- but I want them to have pictures of me. I want them to see the way I looked at them, see how much I loved them. I am not perfect to look at and I am not perfect to love, but I am perfectly their mother.

When I look at pictures of my own mother, I don't look at cellulite or hair debacles. I just see her -- her kind eyes, her open-mouthed, joyful smile, her familiar clothes. That's the mother I remember. My mother's body is the vessel that carries all the memories of my childhood. I always loved that her stomach was soft, her skin freckled, her fingers long. I didn't care that she didn't look like a model. She was my mama.

So when all is said and done, if I can't do it for myself, I want to do it for my kids. I want to be in the picture, to give them that visual memory of me. I want them to see how much I am here, how my body looks wrapped around them in a hug, how loved they are."

ETA: Article is about a year old so it may have been shared. Even so, worth sharing again.