I love looking at pictures of Hailey when she was little. She was such a little cutie pie, always smiling and doing the silliest things. The first ten years of her life are all sweetly scrapbooked. Pages of pretty paper and pictures that tell the story of her life in snapshots.
Once I got divorced the time for scrapbooking escaped me, there just weren’t enough hours in the day. I still took pictures but they are in the little envelopes you get when you have them developed, waiting for the day that I have time to put them in albums. Thanks to digital cameras I have tons of pictures on the computer of her life since the divorce, but that is where they languish, on the computer, again waiting for me to have time to print them out and put them in albums.
As I looked through the pictures I realized there are very few of the two of us together. There are entire scrapbook pages of Hailey and her father, but the years after the divorce she could be a little orphan child, there isn’t a parent in her pictures. I was always the one taking the pictures, even when I was married, but now it’s just me so I’m the only one here to take the pictures.
When I look back on pictures of me as a child, I’m always with my father or my grandparents. The only pictures of me and my mother are ones we had professionally done. We mom’s need to put a stop to this! I would love to see pictures of my mom at different ages when I was growing up. My mother was a single parent a lot of the time and those moments of just her and her kids are lost, there are no pictures to show Hailey of me and mom reading, or riding bikes or decorating for Christmas.
Even though Hailey is older I’m going to try to get more pictures of the two of us and once she has little ones of her own I’m going to make sure that there are plenty of pictures of her with her babies. Childhood is so fleeting, it would be nice if it looked like we were there!