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Picture Perfect

I am not a Family Photo kind of person. I don’t think we’ve ever had them done, honestly.  Once we were in a magazine article about military families that they sent a photographer for, and that’s our one professional family photo in 13 years. We have a handful of shots of our family together, taken by friends and family or random strangers that we ask along the way.  But for the most part, I’m not a picture person in general.  We don’t have photos of our family up in the house.  I forget to even take pictures a lot, my children will hopefully have amazing memories of their childhood, because I just haven’t documented all that much of it. That’s probably for the best, really. We’ve never had pre-deployment photos, or reunion photographers.  There’s a couple shots from the 3rd reunion a friend took without us knowing, and I love them.  But I’ve never gone out of my way to have them taken. Part of me is just lazy. I have all the lame reasons, like I don’t like the way I look or I’ll do it when I lose 5lbs, when my face clears up, when my hair is less ragey…. but there’s a part of me is mostly being a little silly. Maybe a lot silly. Before Canadian soldiers leave for deployment, they have a photo taken of them.  Most call it their ‘death photo‘, though many have tried to redeem the photos themselves, the name sticks.  I’ve never seen Dh’s.  He’s never…