Just for fun Friday

Here's a new fun thing I'm going to try. Each Friday, I'm going to post a picture I took that week that makes me smile - or laugh - or say 'Hmmmmm.' These won't be the most amazing pictures, just a warning! Here's the first one.



What makes me laugh at this picture is how it encapsulate so many things. There's the Starbucks cup in the background. You wouldn't know it to look at it, but it represents friendship. My friend brought me that delicious, frosty beverage for our playdate. It's one of those details that doesn't mean anything to the viewer of the picture, but always means something to the taker. You know?

Then there's my position in the picture. Do you ever look at a picture and really give thought to where the photographer is? Most of the time I don't. This picture makes me laugh at myself. I climbed all the way up onto a jungle gym not to play with my kids, but to snap pictures of them. How wrong is that?

Which leads me to my 'Hmmmmmmmm' moment. Stone doesn't even know I'm there. He's not posing, smiling, or even aware of mom with the camera. Begs the question of whether I need to put down the camera. Maybe mom needs to stop viewing her children through a lens and get involved. So that the view from my eyes (read: NOT my camera) is one where my kids are smiling and laughing at me.

Really, do we ever LOOK at a picture that hard? Maybe I should call this Freudian Friday...