Sarah Jordan Photography

Ok, I’ll admit it: I’m a perfectionist.

(Friends and family, you can stop chuckling now…)

Sometimes, this is advantageous to those around me. Handmade gifts are not deemed “done” until they look like they were made by Martha Stewart. Photos aren’t sent to clients until they are edited as rigorously as though they were to be hung on my own walls. Speaking of walls, ask me to paint a room and I become determined to get that ceiling line *just* right – or I’ll stay up all night getting it that way.

Other times, I am pretty sure that those around me just want to yell, “It’s good enough!” I’ve been working on embracing a “good enough” sort of attitude in many areas of my life since having kids. I can tolerate a surprising number of toys on the family room floor at one time, and my boys’ clothes don’t always match because they prefer to pick out their own shirts each morning. When Hudson paints a picture of a dog with only 3 legs, I proudly display it on the fridge door. And yet, I’m pretty sure that when I brought up the prospect of a family photo shoot – my OWN family, that is – most of my closest friends and relatives were tempted to run the other way.

But they didn’t.

Instead, they patiently listened to my “vision”, sat through a brief instruction of how to focus and snap an image, and then proceeded to take more photos than they ever thought possible in a single evening. Words cannot express how grateful I am to my friends Erica and Casey and my amazing parents for their willingness to help us capture images of our family that truly show what our lives are like right now. I will treasure these images forever, and will always remember the love they reflect.

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