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On the top of my list this week is to complete our holiday cards! How about you? But, yes, I still had a to force a family picture to be taken. I won’t be faking a perfect photo this year. However, as timed has passed I much prefer to send photos that show my messy, chaotic, and fun-filled life. If that had happened this year, I would have sent out the photo with the idiot in the background! Yes, photo editing can produce the most perfect picture. Pissed, actually! And since I had not, at this point, released my need to have the “perfect” family picture, I just faked it! You will see that in the picture I sent out I converted it to black and white and edited out the photo bomber. Some yahoo decided it would be good fun to photo bomb my picture. When I got home and loaded it onto the computer, my mouth dropped open. Then, Jeff Mauro and Katie Lee Biegel welcome back Franco Noriega to share his Perfect Poached Egg served on Avocado Toast and chat about his new show Hot Dish. Have a nice suburban home in a good neighborhood. The husband provides, entrusting his paycheck to the wife. We asked a stranger to snap the photo and at quick glance it looked great. Family with a devoted, loyal, and faithful husband and father. Mind boggling! So in desperation I took my camera to the tree lot with a set purpose of getting a family picture to use on our Christmas card. Somehow there was not one photo of all four of us shot during his first 11 months of life. We were about to celebrate Little Man’s first Christmas. You try and capture the perfect photo of your whole family but the kids arent cooperating or someone is missing because they have to take the picture.

Picture perfect family