08/25/2026
This was the four of us a while back... young enough that half of us don't remember it, old enough that I definitely do.
This past weekend I moved both kids into their dorm rooms. Same family in that photo, more years between then and now than I want to admit, and somehow it still felt like it happened overnight.
๐๐๐ซ๐'๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ: you don't take family photos because everyone's still little. You take them because there's a version of your family that only exists right now, this exact combination of people, and it's already changing while you're reading this sentence.
I used to think I had time. Turns out "time" was just every ordinary Tuesday I didn't think to grab the camera.
If your kids are little, fall's a good window before the schedule gets crazy again. And if your kids are already off at college and you're thinking "well, we missed our shot"... you didn't. Whatever this season looks like for your family right now, it's worth having a real picture of it before it looks different again.