This is my 9 year old daughter, Mikaela. She loves to model and does GREAT creepy faces. She absolutely loves doing horror shoots with me.

Recently some family members of mine decided I'm a terrible mother because I dress my children up like this and take photos. It doesn't matter that my kids love it and have a lot of fun while we're taking them. They don't see that in between takes Mikaela is laughing. We all find it funny that she can be laughing really hard then I put the camera up to my eye and she immediately goes into poses like this.

I personally find it beneficial to do these horror shoots with them. It shows them that the things they see on tv and movies are really just makeup and costumes. Since they go their dad's house on the weekends and he's not as selective about the types of things they watch, it's made it so that Mikaela not only doesn't have issues with scary movies, she loves them and they don't REALLY scare her because she realizes it's just actors and actresses playing a role like she does in these photos.

So am I a bad mother? There are a lot of things I tolerate in life. If someone criticizes my photography, my drawings, my writings, that's all fine with me. We all have different tastes and different opinions. But the one thing I don't tolerate is criticism of my parenting skills. I have 6 wonderful, awesome kids who don't go out and get into trouble, get great grades in school (one of whom is starting college next year at the age of 16), and are loving, caring people who really think about others when they do or say things.

It usually doesn't offend me when people say I'm a bad mother, because I know the truth. And by helping my kids overcome fears of scary movies, and have some fun in the process, I think I'm doing quite the opposite. I'm being a GOOD mother, and I can tell you that my children would agree.

Sorry for the rant. lol As for this photo, there were so many good ones from this shoot that I had a hard time deciding which one to post. I finally decided on this one because I liked the way her hand was behind her back, like she was hiding something, and I love her evil little smile. If you want to see the others from this shoot, check out Mikaela's DA account . I'll be posting the rest of them on there this week.