Moms in the Picture | Cup of J...

Years in the past, I wrote about how a lot I like seeing moms in photos with their kids, and I nonetheless do. Particularly now that I’m the only adult in the house, I’m so grateful when pals snap a candid shot of my boys and me. So! In honor of mothers within the body, we requested 11 pals to share their favourite pictures of themselves in motion…

“This was taken in 2018 at my mother’s home in Vermont. My very own mother and I had simply gone thrifting, and she or he had satisfied me to purchase this nice do-it-yourself gown. We had been in her yard having gin and tonics, and the youngsters had been on summer time break, totally feral, as you’ll be able to see from my four-year-old, who was actually feeling himself in his straw hat.” — Kathryn Jezer-Morton

“My son had simply began kindergarten and was having such a tough time. I felt so overwhelmed and didn’t know assist him or what to do. On his birthday in late September, the 2 of us rode the Q prepare all the best way out to Coney Island. The park was empty, we performed video games and gained a stuffy, ate cotton sweet, and rode the ferris wheel (this can be a picture from the highest). It was a big day.” — Erin Jang

“My second delivery expertise was so quick. The physician advised me that if I felt like I wanted to poop, to allow them to know straight away. And I used to be like, I have to poop now. I keep in mind they had been like, no, it’s too quickly. However positive sufficient, they checked and I used to be able to go. I solely pushed twice, and she or he got here out! My first birthing expertise was longer and extra traumatic, so I used to be so relieved to be achieved. We don’t have household in NYC, so it was simply Zach and me within the birthing room. I’m so grateful for the nurse who requested if she may have my telephone whereas I used to be pushing, so she may take pictures of us in the course of the delivery. In any other case, I by no means would’ve received this picture, which I’ll cherish ceaselessly.” — Alison Piepmeyer

“This was our first large household mountaineering journey! It was my daughter Louise’s thought for us to have matching braids. Now we do them each time we do something adventurous collectively.” — Liz Libré

“This summer time, we went on a screen-free street journey as a household up the East Coast, and it was wild and tough and delightful. We had been compelled into this sitcom-esque closeness that was each impossibly arduous and likewise humorous and candy. I’ll by no means, ever overlook it. (Right here, we had been at Franconia Falls.)” — Kate Baer

“After having my second baby, Emiliano, I may NOT recover from how completely different he was from my older daughter, Ella. He by no means slept via the evening, he cherished the stroller, and he spat up on a regular basis. I felt like the whole lot I’d realized about parenting was ineffective as a result of none of my outdated tips labored with him. However one distinction that at all times introduced me to my knees? He was thumb sucker.” — Jannelle Sanchez

“This picture was taken shortly after my closing spherical of chemo, and my hair was lastly beginning to develop again. I keep in mind pondering how lengthy and luscious my locks felt (lol), and all I needed had been pictures of my youngsters with me within the body — proof of my existence, and my survival, if I’m being trustworthy! It was the purest type of happiness that I’d ever skilled.” — Nicki Sebastian

“I like this picture on trip with my two women. I’m working lengthy hours proper now and actually treasure time with each of them.” — Selena Ma

“This picture is from final yr on the U.S. Open. My youngsters don’t play tennis but however I’m obsessive about tennis and encourage the fandom. I at all times root for Carlos Alcaraz on the lads’s facet and Jasmine Paolini on the ladies’s facet, they usually like to make enjoyable of my depth.” — Youngna Park

“I hope heaven is mendacity in my cousin’s backyard with my child napping on my chest.” — Bess Kalb

My good friend Claire additionally lives solo together with her daughter, so I attempt to snap pictures of them at any time when they’re doing one thing candy, which is more often than not. How beautiful are they, draped on one another? Brings tears to my eyes.

Ideas? Do you ever take selfies? Or bounce into the picture? If not, that is your pleasant invitation to try this, in the event you’d like. xoxo

P.S. A parenting realization that really moved me, thoughts on a mother’s body, and my cousin Meredith being an absolute MOM on a ride at Disney World.