We sold our house just over two years ago and were actually told NOT to put away photos, family trinkets etc. Obviously take the kids' paintings off the fridge so that the kitchen looks tidier but otherwise, if your house is a family home then it should display that. Walking into your home and seeing that a REAL family lives there demonstrates to people that hey, if it works for your family it can work for theirs.

I know when we had a few agents come out initially to value our house there were differing views on it, but the agent that we went with said to leave the family stuff in place, as did the professional photographer and stylist who came out. FWIW, we sold our house for almost $200,000 more than the agents who said NOT to leave the photos etc around would even list it for.

Good luck when it comes time to sell. I hope it goes quickly for you.