Maybe your children are getting older into those teen years and you’re looking around and you’re realizing you don’t have any photos with your older child. They are getting ready to pick a college, or have a graduation party, and you don’t have as many family photos. Just because they aren’t toddlers anymore doesn't mean that this stage of life shouldn’t be documented. It’s still the last time they will be this little!

Those pictures are important. For you and for them, whether they act like it or not. Let’s take those photos.

Imagine shelves full of binder style photo albums, some of the pages crooked in the neat stack of pages because one of the punch holes ripped. This is what our dad’s book shelves were lined with. He would print triples by the time we got to high school, one for each of us and one for him. Sometimes, instead of giving us a copy, he’d give a whole set to the friend we went on vacation with. I vividly remember where the photo department was at each of the places he developed the photographs. I searched for our name on the yellow Kodak or green Fuji envelopes, scratched out in his capitals-only handwriting. I could hardly stand the 3 day wait we had to endure to go pick them up.