I Heart Faces: Motherhood

I Heart Faces is hosting the first of what I am sure will be many "motherhood" themed challenges this week. So, I decided to practice a little using my timer setting to see if I could capture a few mother/daughter moments. It's not often I actually get to be in the pictures and maybe if I get better at this sort of thing I can continue to include myself in the girls' scrapbooks. Ha!

This photo depicts the way I often feel when looking at my oldest daughter...like I'm looking in a mirror. We have the same big brown eyes and she has my childhood haircolor (which I've tried to preserve through highlighting). But our similarities go much deeper than that. We approach life in much the same way and we clash most often because we are too much alike. I do hope that I can help her to avoid some of my mistakes and to model my successes, but mostly I want her to celebrate the wonderful unique little lady that she is, in spite of the fact that she is my mirror image.