Family Pictures

In the role of motherhood, the first major goal is potty training, the second is getting them to stay by themselves in the Primary nursery. Third is the dreaded Family Pictures. When you are a young mother, you worry about clean clothes, spit up, and no one crying. As the family gets older, you worry about clean clothes and everyone showing up. When they grand kids start to come, you worry about clean clothes, spit up and everyone showing up and no one crying. We haven't had an official family picture since 2000. We've added nine more bodies for a mother to worry about, now it's finding clothes that match, so that those who don't know your family as well will know who belongs with whom. Then when you decide to have them outside, you worry about the weather. We have had the driest summer in Salt Lake in my memory. The only other days of rain were the times we tried to go to the zoo as a family. Last Saturday was beautiful. Today it rained until about 7:00 pm, about 12 straight hours. The ones who were on time had exhausted children but the time the whole family was together. And when we did the grand kids, they were all about crying. A typical snapshot of the end of a family get together. So watch for it this Christmas, we'll see if we can find one where we are all reasonably respectable looking. : )