A picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why weddings are never complete without a photography package. It’s why new parents nervously allow their tiny, red infants to be squeezed into lacy, beribboned outfits and arranged in buckets, baskets and boxes.
“I don’t take enough pictures,” we all say as we snap away on our phones, adding to the hundreds of digital images we will probably never look at again. Because our children grow up faster than we can keep up with them. Every parent has looked at a photo of his/her child from six months earlier and sighed, “Look how tiny he was!” We take pictures in an attempt to halt time; to freeze our children at this age; to allow ourselves to memorize every nuance of their smallness for tomorrow – next week – next year – when they are just a little bit bigger. Read more