Your Boring is Beautiful.

I love “boring” days with the families I get to photograph! They are the most honest. They are the days you’re kids are going to remember the most. Boring usually just means routine. Things you’re so used to doing as a family that they don’t seem special to you in the moment you’re doing them. But time always changes things. There’s no stopping it. Kids grow up, routines change. There will be a day when you wish you could have just one more of those boring days together as a young family again. At least you’ll have photographs to look back at. To jog your memories… the ones that are growing foggier by the year. Trust me. My children are preteens and teenagers now. And while we still have our own versions of boring Sundays… there’s not as much together time anymore. I sometimes wish I could go back to the days when their bodies were always piled up on top of mine. Arms and legs going in every which direction. Just to feel the weight of them again. Sigh.

These boring days are how you spend your lives together. That’s beautiful. That’s what I want to preserve for you all. Just like I’ve tried to do for my self and my family.
I want to photograph the breakfast they’ve eaten every morning for the past month because it’s all they will eat right now. I want to photograph the pile of laundry that never seems to end. The walk you take every evening while you’re trying to tire them out before bedtime. I want to photograph the monotony. The routines that are seared into your being at this point. The things that make you say “If I have to _____ one more time, I’m going to scream!” Trust me, it won’t always be like this. For better and… just trust me.

These days are fleeting. These days are precious. These days are anything but boring to me and my cameras. Invite us over. Let me show you!