Family is a broad term. Family is about love, not numbers. There are families of one and families of many. Family is about celebrating ourselves wherever and however we are in our journey.

We all know that sense that we wish we could stop time, just for a little bit. As adults, we keep changing - physically and emotionally. When we have children and pets, we have that sense that we just with we could hold them as they were once again. We cherish moments when our tweens share a glimpse of the adolescent they are becoming, and just as quickly, remind of of the child we have known. We get teary when our toddlers become preschoolers, and when our infants become toddlers, and want to bottle that smell of a newborn. 

Sometimes the rhythms of life give us reasons to create milestone memories - births, christenings, communions, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, graduations and engagements. Sometimes, though we get caught up in wanting to wait before we capture these moments. We are planning to have more children, so we want to wait until the family is "complete", or we want to lose a few pounds, or wait for one of the children to be a little older. 

We can wait, and then lament that we didn't celebrate the moment that was. Creating family memories one a regular basis creates its own heartbeat to remember how you and your family is growing and loving through life. Those memories are then there, waiting for us in an album or on the wall; they are waiting to make us remember a great day when you created beautiful moments of you and those whom we love.