Capture Your Grief-Day 18

CAPTURE YOUR GRIEF 2012 Photography Project 

for October-Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

Day 18: Family Portrait

October 18, 2012 ♥

Day 18. Your Family Portrait: Take a photo of you with your family, work out a way to incorporate your baby/ies/child/ren who are no longer physically with you anymore. You could hold up photos of them or even just hold their names with you. What does your family look like now? Is it just you left here? Do you have a large family? Is it just you and your partner?

This one was tough for me. I had a hard time deciding what photo to use and who to include. The thing is, I am single and don't have a "typical" family portrait to share.

I definitely consider my mom, dad, twin older brothers, and little sister as my family. If I had a recent photo of all of us with something to symbolize Lily, I would have used that.

Since I don't, I chose to share one of me, with Lily's name in the sand on a beach in North Carolina, United States, symbolizing her. She is my daughter, my immediate family, and it's just she and I. I hope and pray there will be more people in future family portraits. I already have ideas of how I would include Lily. With a bouquet of lilies, with her photo, with all of us sitting in chairs and an empty one at the end for her. A chair for a little girl who will never fill it. Yet how much joy and love fills my heart.

-To see all of my photos from the photography project, click here.

-To share your own photos on the event page and to see the lovely photos others are sharing, click here.

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