A polaroid self portrait

This was a challenge for me.  

I have been wanting to take a polaroid self portrait for ages now (years?) 

but whenever I think of it I have every excuse under the sun - no time, too busy, bad hair day etc etc.  

This morning, my little guy and I got home from walking Annabel to school,

 and in between playing trains, having a tidy up 

and mentally planning all I have to do today to get ready for a market tomorrow, 

I realised that if every day is a busy/bad hair day, then I would never take the photo.  

So before I could talk myself out of it, I put down the washing basket, grabbed the polaroid, 

and here you have it.  

A selfie.  

Bad hair day and all.  

Of course I asked myself why was I posting a very real (read un-glamorous) photo here?  

And you know why?  

Because life is short.  

Life is real.  

And this is me.