Successful Manipulation

Sunday Night Katie
Originally uploaded by jessamynnorth.

Good Lord, Nestle just sent me an email with a "special holiday greeting," and I watched it, and it showed this mother kissing and playing with her smiling baby, and the voiceover says: "She's what you wished for...what you're most thankful for...and why the holidays this year mean even more. Because it's your first together...the first of many you'll share through the years..." and I knew before I even looked at it that it would be a sappy card, and it's from a huge corporation, and it's meant to manipulate me and I know this, and yet as I watched it, I teared up.

IT'S SO TRUE!!!!

With four exclamation points, even.

Family Holiday Portrait

Family Holiday Portrait
Originally uploaded by jessamynnorth.

This was the best of about 35 takes. (Thank you, digital.) We'll try again tomorrow. This is nice, but we'd prefer to get a shot where none of us are blurry. And maybe even one where no one's underwear is showing.

As a side note, how do you like our little home studio? Yes, that's wrapping paper hanging behind the couch.