Well--for those of you with school age children already this is not news to you....but for all you parents out there still waiting for the first day of kindergarten just wait. The age of digital pictures now allows for children to choose their "own" background. I think Clare had at least 12 she could choose from. Out of the 12 mostly ridiculous backgrounds you could choose from, Clare chose...drum roll please--the cactus background....because you know....we live so close to the desert. Chris and I (trying to hide our giggles) were like...ummm no! So she then decided that if she couldn't do the cactus background that the "fall scene" would be the one that we would remember her kindergarten year by....ummmm sorry Clare we are the meanest parents on earth....but no.
I finally had her convinced that the grey background would work perfect because it would make her new hot pink shirt look great... she gets to school and the background the kids see is green (so they can alter in the computer later). So the first words out of her mouth Wednesday afternoon---mom you TOLD me that I was going to have the grey background and they gave me green. So after a brief lesson in Photoshop I think she has it figured out....now we just have to get through Spring pictures where I'm sure we will get to choose from a big Easter Egg and some pastoral green field background....wish us luck.
2 comments:
Ok, the cactus background? I'm dying!
Being the third child, Jim (husband) always managed to sneak out of the house--or not sneak, since no one remembered it was picture day--wearing concert teeshirts and unkempt hair. All his pals were jealous, as they were decked out in silky, polyester shirts with photo prints of airplanes on them (oof, elementary school in the 70s)!
We always had grey background, except in 1976 when everyone had a flag.
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