Say Cheese!

Ah, school picture day. It's a big deal in kids' lives. In elementary school, it's the day your mom makes you dress up in a way that is quite impractical considering that you will probably be playing on the playground a few minutes after you take your picture. In junior high it becomes a day that you have to create your perfect look because you know that all of your friends will want a wallet size copy of your picture to tape on their trapper keeper or post in their locker. By high school, I don't think it was as big of a deal, but in my high school at least, we were given the benefit of getting to take our picture on the day in summer that we picked up our schedule, so at least we could wear what we wanted. The only dreadful part of high school was that if you had a bad picture, it was definitely your yearbook photo. Good luck.
Ironically, every year that my kids take pictures, I have to take a picture too. Understandable, the school needs a professional photo of me too. But, why do I get a free package of these photos? What am I supposed to do with 8 wallets, 2 5X6's and 1 8X10 of myself? Mail it to grandparents? I think that's what wedding photos are for. Set it on my desk, where only I and my kids would see it? Give it to my husband to put in his wallet? Thank goodness for camera phones that allow him to take real life photos of me. So instead, each year these pictures stay in their envelopes in the top drawer of my desk. Maybe I'll be famous one day and can autograph them.