Photos With Our Children

Words & Photography
by Esther Wright



A new goal I set for this year is to be present in more photos with my children. I'm not the very best at it and, to be honest, I'm embarrassed at all the excuses I tell myself as to why It's never a priority. Now I'm not usually a person who is open and shares deep thoughts, but it's been weighing heavily on my mind lately and is something that needs to be shared. I hope some of you can relate.

A new goal I set for this year is to be present in more photos with my children. I'm not the very best at it and, to be honest, I'm embarrassed at all the excuses I tell myself as to why It's never a priority. 

I've struggled my entire life with not feeling confident, perfect enough, or comfortable in my own skin. I'm a perfectionist who happens to be my own worst critic. I pick apart all the imperfect things that I see about myself and wish there were things I had control of, or could change. Why do we as women do this to ourselves? Something that I've come to learn is that working on our relationship with ourself is a continual process, and that it might take time.

God has blessed me with two beautiful daughters and unless I want them to grow up going down the same path as me, I need to step it up and show them a better example of self love. The Instagram community has been a wonderful blessing for me, but it can also, at times, be really hard. We're constantly comparing our lives to others' and what seems to be their picture perfect world. I hope we can all realize that no one is perfect and that we don't always see each other's struggles.

I pick apart all the imperfect things that I see about myself and wish there were things I had control of, or could change...Something that I've come to learn is that working on our relationship with ourself is a continual process, and that it might take time.

May we include ourself in more photos with our children, because these times are fleeting and we won't get them back. Our children will want to see photos of us when they grow older. The good and the bad ones. Now wouldn't it be a shame if you only had very few photos to share with them? This life is hard and I hope we can all be supportive of each other and build one another up instead of tearing each other down. Heaven knows this world could use a little more good and kindness to replace the over abundance of bad and evil.