You know…. Sometimes it’s hard to buy a gift for your mother. Sometimes, it’s because she has everything already, sometimes it’s because you don’t know what she really wants, and other times it’s because she’ll tell you all she wants is “a hug and a kiss” like mine always used to say. We’ve been doing these “cousin portraits” for eight years. Wow. It would be fun if I had scanned in the old ones and could post all eight years, but I didn’t, so you can look at past years here and here and here.

For this years, I tried to make it real simple. Wear your favorite outift, I said. Let’s meet at the park, I said. Nothing fancy. Nothing “portrait-y”. Be yourselves. And you know what my mom said? “I can really see each of their personalities,” she said. Mission Accomplished.

Another group of thoughtful children. Their mom is an amazing person, so when the daughter contacted me, I said YES OF COURSE! 🙂 And word is, the younger son was going to scrapbook these images. I can’t wait to see the final product!! 😉