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Moms and Photographs

Pictures Are Worth
a Thousand Words

By Debbie Farmer

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The only thing that can clear a room faster than someone yelling "fire" is a mom waving a handful of freshly developed photographs. All General MacArthur needed to stop advancing enemy troops during World War II was to place a mother on the front-line armed with 14 sets of newly developed slides and a projector.

Since the first day my children were born, I loved recording every moment on film. "So what," I said to my husband, "if our son thinks my name is 'cheese' and can't look me straight in the eye without squinting. I am creating memories," I paused, "and gathering evidence for their years in psychotherapy."

When I started sharing my memories with dinner guests, the mail carrier, trick-or-treaters and anyone else who came within 15 feet of my front door, my house became quieter than a ghost town. Solicitors, while passing my driveway, would break into a sprint and pretend they were on their daily jog. Even religious missionaries would shout their doctrine through a bullhorn from the car.

"Why don't Bob and Betty come over anymore?" I asked my husband one day while barbecuing dinner and feeling lonely.

"Three rolls of baby's first bath," he said.

"What about Frank and Karen?"

"Six rolls of baby's first cold."

"Rob and Sue?"

"Two rolls of baby turning over, followed by four rolls of napping." He paused. "The birth video finished them off."


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