sundayscribblings

Since having a child, all the photo albums in our home has photos of her or us with her. In short, all photographs leave a clue that we have a kiddo with us.

We left our old photo albums in our former home due to limited baggage capacity during our relocation abroad.

Once when I took Pristine to my parent’s house, we had the chance to look through old photos of myself when I was still single (and thin hee hee). It was amazing how she can still recognize the young girl in the photo is her mom. Then the wedding album popped up. She immediately recognized me and her dad in it. With a quizzical look on her face, she asked me,

“mom, why I’m not here?”

Of course she was not there, because she was not born yet. But how do you explain this to a (then) 3 year old? She is used to see all photos had either me or her dad in it but in the wedding photos (hundreds of it), she was not in any of them.

I did not bring the wedding photos in our current home right now. It is left in my parent’s house and I will only bring it when the time comes Pristine is not saddened by the thought that she is left out during the photo shooting!

This writing exercise is fueled by the writing prompt “that photograph” at Sunday Scribblings.