{"id":36,"date":"2007-06-04T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-06-04T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T17:36:41","slug":"not-playing-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/not-playing-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Playing Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>\"AngelicaLook at these pictures!\u00c2\u00a0 Aren’t they amazing?!?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, maybe only I think that ’cause they are my kids, but seriously, they are pretty good for “school” pictures…….aren’t they?<\/p>\n

Usually, with the pictures that we get home from the school, it’s a giant crap shoot as to whether or not they are actually going to be good pictures or not.<\/p>\n

This year we took the regular school photo’s in September or October, and then about a month ago the kids came home with another form for more\u00c2\u00a0school pictures.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I was a little annoyed.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I’ve never been to a school that did school pictures twice in one year, and while I can appreciate that kids change and grow so fast, and that they do look different – sometimes – from the beginning of the year to the end of the year……..all I could think was “money grab.”<\/p>\n

It turns out that I wasn’t that far off.<\/p>\n

\"Alexandra<\/p>\n

This was a fundraiser for the school.\u00c2\u00a0 It would have been nice had a notice come home explaining what the deal was, and maybe even the fact that this was a professional photographer doing the pics, and not some person who sees way too many “little brats” in the course of the day to really care if their hair is sticking out all over the place, and they have a giant piecs of lunch wedged in their front teeth, and their shirt has water stains on it from where they were “washing” their hands (and the rest of the washroom – it looks like)…..not that I would have ever really experienced anything like this particular scenario………<\/p>\n

Any way, the day of the school pictures, I didn’t even try to do anything with my kids.\u00c2\u00a0 Told them to pick up whatever sort of clean clothes they could find off the floor of their bedrooms, and if they weren’t too dirty , then to throw they on.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I yelled at least twice for them to brush their teeth, although seeing as I didn’t march them into the bathroom personally – they just assumed that I was joking, and I don’t think it got done.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at the pictures, I think that the girls brushed their hair that morning, although you can’t always tell with Xan…..at least in the pony tails, you can’t tell how greasy Geli’s hair is.\u00c2\u00a0 Aren’t I the picture of a perfect mom?\u00c2\u00a0 Dirty clothes, Greasy Hair, and no teeth brushed…….sweet!<\/p>\n

\"JeremyThen the pictures came home, and I was shocked.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite my lack of grooming, the pictures are so sweet.<\/p>\n

Although I do think that Jeremy’s head is cocked over a little to far to the right – they are still amazing pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Xan just about ALWAYS takes a good picture, so I wasn’t really shocked when I saw hers.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeremy’s wasn’t too bad either.\u00c2\u00a0 I will admit that I’d have loved to see Geli smiling a bit more, but she usually has such a hard time taking really good pictures that I was THRILLED with this one of her.<\/p>\n

The deal with the school is that they got 1 dollar for each child they took a picture of.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the company developed the photos, chose the best one.\u00c2\u00a0 DEVELOPED and SENT HOME 6 sheets of varying sizes and types of the photo, AND once you’ve got those cute pictures in your grubby little fingers (although I’m starting to swell, and so mine are not as little as I’d like them to be) it’s awfully hard to refuse them.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sneaky, Sneaky photography company.<\/p>\n

It was $37 for the package of 6 sheets, or $14 per sheet.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously it was cheaper to get the package, but I really didn’t want to pay over $100 for some pictures of my kids no\u00c2\u00a0matter how nice they were.<\/p>\n

I did however, take one sheet of each of them WAY OVERPRICED at $14 and got\u00c2\u00a0two “3 x 5″‘s and\u00c2\u00a0eight “1 x 2″s or whatever the little tiny size is.<\/p>\n

If even only a handful of the parents did this, then that photography studio is making a killing.\u00c2\u00a0 It annoys me that I\u00c2\u00a0was sucked\u00c2\u00a0into their little scheme.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well!\u00c2\u00a0 Cute pics!\u00c2\u00a0 Now I just have to get over it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at these pictures!\u00c2\u00a0 Aren’t they amazing?!?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, maybe only I think that ’cause they are my kids, but seriously, they are pretty good for “school” pictures…….aren’t they? Usually, with the pictures that we get home from the school, it’s a giant crap shoot as to whether or not they are actually going to … Continue reading “Not Playing Fair”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}