Picture perfect

The other day, one afternoon, I was bored and so I was looking at old  photos and I came across this family photo of ours. At once, memories came rushing in, how we took this photograph and my effort behind this.

         It's every home maker's dream to have a beautiful family portrait. This photograph is perfect, isn't it? Everyone is looking at the camera, wonderfully smiling and have perfectly dressed up. You may think that isn't a big deal, but to me it was. My daughters with their perfect hair and my hubby smiling, that's good looking! He never does that, and so, I am glad to have a record of it ha ha just kidding :) 

       When I suggested the idea of hanging a blow up of our family picture in our living room, everyone happily welcomed the idea, but no one was ready to come to the studio to take the picture .Everyone was mouthing some reason or the other, "Maa! I have to study," "Maa! I have plans with my friends," "Honey, I have work" (always elusive this ready made reply.) So to just gather them was a big task. The first one who was convinced was my younger daughter. Then it was my hubby's turn, he agreed  to come along only in terms that we can return in one hour and then, my elder daughter had one more condition. She was in her friends house and she agreed to come only if she was allowed to go back there after the photo shoot. Okay, done! I agreed to everyone and we proceeded to Photo Zone. Thank God, it wasn't crowded that day, and we had the photo shoot without any disturbance, but it was a Herculean task for the photographer .

      Our family is filled with great posers, but when it comes to taking a group photo, everyone of us were looking at different directions, and when we were made to look at the camera, we were not smiling, and the photographers main task was to make my hubby smile. Out of the 20 pictures taken, this was the only picture in which he was smiling. Voila! We got the picture! We then framed it and it is still hanging in our living room for years.
     Now it is the highlight of the room! Everyone is at awe at the picture and questions about the whereabouts of it.My hubby jumps out with a reply telling them  how much it cost and and how we ended with the wonderful idea of framing it big to the size of the wall. My daughter also chips in about the place Photo Zone and how the photographer takes wonderful pictures. I sit quietly watching them pom poming. I've been so close to yelling, "But remember how hard it was for me to take you there?" so many times, but I kept my mouth shut, after all, they are my family, aren't they?