Comments on: REAL Family Christmas Photos

By: purple moose

purple moose — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:48:51 +0000

I don’t try too hard. It’s hard to, since the times when we a) all together as a family and b) able to have someone take our photo are few and far between.

By: Alyssa @ Keeping the Kingdom First

Alyssa @ Keeping the Kingdom First — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:10:39 +0000

Can’t wait to see all the fun, count me in!

By: Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma

Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:13:29 +0000

This year I used a card with 2 slots, so I could just take individual pictures of each of my boys…since as they get older they get harder and harder to photograph.

However, I will admit that I did photoshop my 3 year old’s head from another photo and add it to the picture I ended up using last year LOL!

By: melissa stover

melissa stover — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:55:00 +0000

i love this idea. i’m going to write a letter too.

By: Lindsey Swinborne

Lindsey Swinborne — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:42:57 +0000

I see my Christmas letter as a once-a-year chance to testify to God’s goodness to some of my friends and relatives that otherwise don’t stay in touch. I don’t want to make our lives sound perfect so I include the quirky and normal things about us. This year was the hardest year of our lives so I listed all the significant trials we had in one column, with all of the answers to prayer and grace God gave us for the situations on the other column. I hope my letter ministered to those who are going through similar things or will perhaps face trials in 2010. I don’t just talk about the good of our kids but am not afraid to mention the negatives too (like our son just happens to have the perfect name for him Jeremiah–he’s always crying and our daughter needs to be reminded often that she is not the mom and our baby loves to play in the garbage!)

By: Allyson

Allyson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:47:38 +0000

Thank you! Glad I’m not the only one with the same problem!

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:53:34 +0000

ha ha I gave up on the family photo and just made a card of my 2 boys. They are cute no matter what! The problem was finding a photo I liked of me…since I am usually the photographer there are few to choose from.

By: Jessalyn

Jessalyn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:11:37 +0000

Great idea!!!! It is interesting that Christmas cards only have the “good” news in them and none of the trials and bad stuff. Good reminder to be real!

By: Nancy M.

Nancy M. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:51:24 +0000

I only have 2 kids and I can never get them both smiling and looking at the camera at the same time. Either one or the other is making some kind of face or looking somewhere else.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:53:18 +0000

My children have never really liked photo shoots. My oldest has a studio baby photo that we say is really Alfred Hitchcock or some other stodgy, stoic old man.

When my boys were little, they made the lady at Sears cry during their photo shoot because they wouldn’t stop crying after they had fought the instructions to sit still for a few photos.

My now 7 yo daughter pitched a royal fit at The Picture People when she was 3. She is so photogenic & friendly that I have never understood the Mr. Hyde tranformation during these photo sessions.

The youngest has been fairly cooperative, but a photo of all 4 of the kids when she was about 2 shows her in motion out of the photo.

Last year, I opted for the outdoors, non-studio family photos with a “professional” photographer. I have plenty of photos where no one (but dh & me) would look at the camera.

And I purposely had my 10 yo (who happily complied as a real booger) stick his finger up his nose so I could snap a shot…just want to be able to blackmail him when he starts dating.

No, family pictures are not my fondest memories. It’s more of an obligation thing….an obligation I would rather skip.