I’m going Way back when for my snapshot this week. I haven’t submitted a photo for a while. I just haven’t really taken any. Although I did take on when we visited Cadbury World during the week. It wasn’t a very exciting photo though.
I have been sorting through some old photos though and I thought I’d share this photo of me in 1989 with my first born in my arms and my second in my belly.
I’m standing outside my Mother’s house. It feel like a lifetime ago. Maybe it was, maybe a lot of my readers are as young as my children.
Becoming a mother was my dream and I adored my two children. I was married but my marriage broke down before this little boy was ten years old. I was a single mother for a few years then I met Graham. He had no children of his own so we tried for one and against the odds (I was getting on a bit in fertility ages and considered a geriatric mother) we ended up with three children. So yes, I was truly blessed with 5 children but I had the chance to bring up two of them before starting all over again.
I remember the day this photo was taken. Shortly afterwards we were whisked off for a day by the sea side by my then husband. Ok, my memory was helped by the rest of the photographs in the album!
I really love looking way back at old photographs. The memories they hold come to life. I wish I had kept more of my Mum’s old photographs but my auntie claimed most of them. She’s a bit of a photograph hoarder. She even asked to borrow my Mum’s wedding album because she was a bridesmaid. I never did get it back.
If one thing I’ve learnt, it’s never underestimate the importance of a photograph, a capture of a moment in time. A memory, a lifetime of way back when’s.
I found this old post which included the album this photo was taken from. Now, I put my favourite photos into digital photobooks, but they are still as memorble
Thank you for sharing the story of your photo. I love taking pictures and am now so grateful I have so many wonderful photos of my youngest son. He didn;t always like me taking them and sometimes would lim it the number I could take, but there are photos of everything.
Saving photos now means keeping the digital forms in a secure spot. I, too, have lots of oldies. They just fade away . . . Your shared photo is so sweet – I love it. #MMBC
What a wonderful photo.
In 1989 I was about 9 years old. lol
I love looking at old photographs.
What a beautiful photo! I didn’t realise you had 5 kids! All my old photos are in a big box and I should sort them out one day. I think I prefer to have actual photos because I have lost so many of my digital ones over the years.
I’m not normally allowed to mention the older two on my blog, but I did ask my firstborn if it was ok to put this photo without a name. (I don’t use any of my kids names just in case their friends googled them.) Losing digital photos is a nightmare. I remember having them all on discs in the past! Now I have about six back ups and trying to find the photo I want is a nightmare. Yes, actual photos are much better 🙂
What a lovely photo. It really does look like a different time.
I’ve always taken a lot of photos and kept printing them and putting them in albums right until 2018, then it got too expensive and too time consuming, so I gave up. Now they just live on my phone.
I think I stopped after my youngest were born. It’s all been digital since then, but I like to keep all important photos in photo books. I won one of the MAD blog awards, professional photos of all the bloggers, can remember what year it was off the top of my head, probably 2013!
Sadly I no longer have access to any of my childhood photos (long story) but I agree – photos are so precious. Thanks for linking up and for sharing with #MySundaySnapshot.