Picture Day!

Do you remember picture day at school? I was asked to volunteer today at my sons' school to help with picture day.

I remember when I would get up a little earlier to make sure my coiffure was styled to picture day perfection. Fortunately or unfortunately, I went to Catholic school so I didn't have to worry about what to wear...it was always the blue plaid jumper. I would practice smiling in the mirror after brushing my teeth to make sure I put my best face forward.

I enjoyed spending time with the kids today. Although my unscientific poll shows that only 1 in 20 kids practiced smiling for picture day. When I asked them if they practiced in the mirror, they looked at me like I was some kind of moldy food left in the back of the fridge. Sometime in the last few years I went from someone I thought was hip to geeky-volunteer-mom-at-picture day.

I discovered that the photographers who take school pictures annoy the shit out of me. Whoever thought of telling the kids to say things like "happy monkey" to get them to smile was an idiot. The kids don't smile better after saying those lame phrases. Half the time they have some retarded look on there face from trying to say lame phrase and smile fakely at the same time. And what about the whole "chin down and move your head toward me" bit? They look so unnatural and contorted in a very unflattering way.

All in all picture day was a great success (despite my boys getting filthy before we even left the house this morning)!