When PERFECT TIME to have family photographs taken?

Is there ever a perfect time to have photographs taken of your family?

It’s so easy to say –

I’m too fat.
I have too much going on.
We’re too busy.
Maybe next year.

STOP! We need to take the time to appreciate the value of family photos, if not for ourselves (because we’re too fat or whatever), then for our children.  In 20 years, your children are not going to say,

I really love this photo of my family but I wish my mom had waited until she lost some weight.

Think about the mom, who died when she was 40, only months after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her son was five at the time she passed away. He cherishes every single photo of his mom (not just the ones where she was thin, beautiful and looked perfect).

And then there’s the mom who recently passed away at the age of 37, leaving behind a husband and three young boys. Do you think that those boys will look at photographs of their mom (who pre-cancer probably wished she could have lost some weight) and see her as anything except the most amazing and beautiful mom there ever was.

We never know what tomorrow will bring our way.  and life is quickly racing by; before we know it, our kids will be grown and leaving the house.

NO, THERE IS NO PERFECT TIME.

Maybe this will inspire you, who might be waiting for that perfect time or to lose a couple of pounds, to book a photographer…today!

We need to exist in photographs for our children.

And try to slow down - remember what’s important and see and hear the everyday beauty that surrounds us.