The moments.

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So, I am really working on my photography skills and somewhere along the line while studying I was asked to think about what it is that I am trying to capture in a photograph.  Is it the clothes, a smiling face, toothless grin or is it a moment?  Since then I have been pondering this. I have been thinking about the moments and how to best immortalize them.

Before there were cameras things were always documented via the written word.  Words let you capture something exactly as you want to remember it.  I am going to make an effort to start documenting the moments for them.  I have journals for the kids but they get neglected and mainly written in before major life events and on birthdays and holidays.  I want to remember those sweet moments.  When Abby and Jake spent hours dressing up and putting on plays.  Even times like right now where they are sitting at the table TOGETHER circling their favorites from the Target Toy Catalog.  How Abby put on the same pink dress again today.  It’s her favorite. Or the day that Jake finally gets across the monkey bars.

I am taking a note from my Father in Law.  He has a tiny notebook that he keeps in his pocket.  He calls it his blackberry.  He makes important notes in it and is always writing things down.  I am putting a little notebook in my purse.  Then, next time something really cute happens, I am going to try not to frantically reach for the camera.  Not going to make them recreate what just happened or get that post-amazing mom moment shot that doesn’t really show anything of significance.  Not disrupt the memory.  I am just going to let them carry on and make a little note to myself.  Something that I can toss into one of their keepsake boxes.  Hopefully they will come across it one day.  And smile at seeing my written word and my memories.

And trust me… there will still be more pictures than I imagined possible saved for them too.