Have you ever had a picture that you really wanted to journal exactly what you were thinking when it was taken? A picture where it is very clear in the expression on your face that you want to really kill the person holding the camera?
I have one of those pictures, well two actually, in a layout that I'm working on right now. I can't just leave it out because it's part of a larger project that documents the first year after we adopted our daughter.
The layout is going to be in a bound book but the journaling probably shouldn't be as truthful as I would like for it to be. Or should it?
I wonder if I should print off a copy of the layout, traditional scrapbook type, and put a sticker on the back journaling my exact thoughts at that moment the picture was taken. And then make the book version, um... sanitized.
This is intended to be a history for my daughter. Ultimately it will be a set of books documenting as much as I can for her. I have to tell the truth, but where should I journal it? There's always the chance that a certain person will pick it up and read it.
But the pictures are there. And it was an important night being that it was the first night in our new house. But it was really the wrong time for a photo-op. After a long day and a 350 mile drive with a baby with a cold, it was REALLY the wrong time for pictures. But the picture taker just wouldn't wait until morning. I still had a flippin' crib to assemble and there I am sitting through 'Just one more dear'. Even DH got....ticked after a bit.
How would you handle it? Two separate books? One truthful for the history and one...sanitized for outside eyes?
*ugh*
Friday, December 18, 2009
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Here is what I think - if the picture offends you, then don't include it. However, it sounds as though the picture is important to include. Can you "adjust" your attitude to be grateful that someone took the photos for you, even if at that moment, you were not too happy? You don't have to journal every emotion that way - just the "I was tired, but these are the best photos" or whatever???
If the book is going to an...um...outside source, or at least the one I am thinking of, then I would santize it for them...but leave it real for you and yours. Otherwise your dd will read it and KNOW something is missing because you aren't being your completely honest self. I know it sucks to have to do that, but I completely understand why. or make a secret 3rd version of the layout you keep just on disc...
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