If I’m being really honest, I do love professionally done family photos but I dread more than anything the process of getting them done and making sure everyone is together and dressed to do it. Hence the reason our family photos on this blog are from when my kiddos were oh so little! But I do love photos.

Growing up my Mimi Dot had a camera on her at all times and it was always ready to capture the moment and the memory. First I remember her 35 mm camera. She’d take her roll of 14 pictures and then we’d make the trek to Walmart photo department to fill out the envelope and put it in the slot or if Mrs. Pat was there she’d take it and visit for a few. When 35 mm became ancient technology and digital cameras became a thing, I remember she’d take her little memory card back to Walmart and Mrs. Pat would help her make prints of photos.

My Mimi wasn’t just having one copy of the photos printed out. She had at least 5 or 6 copies printed of each photo, one for each member of the family and she had a very detailed storage system sorted by year. That’s dedication. Once your box was full she would gift it to you at Christmas. Those are probably some of my favorite gifts ever received!

With the invention of high tech cameras built into our phones the process of printing photos and the lack of having photos around for display of casual viewing has almost become a lost art. My kids ask me all the time, “mom what did I look like or ____ when I little?” I guess I should rethink this whole photo thing for my own littles and bring back the tradition that Mimi Dot so diligently worked hard to create. Until then, photo dumps through #raising3rushes will just have to work! Enjoy a little of life update.