School Photos
Gia had school pictures taken. They arrived last week. There are two of them, both of her. Unless I’m missing something, there is no ‘class picture.’ Maybe they couldn’t get the room full of 3 year olds to cooperate. For $45 a set (the least expensive option), they should have had those kids standing at attention. Of course, we ‘have to do it,’ since it is, after all, Gia’s first official class photo. That’s how they get you. Tug those heart strings. Never mind that we have our own website with upwards of 15,000 family photos. Never mind that ours look better and more professional. (I don’t know who they had taking these pictures. They’re cute and all, but that’s only because Gia is quite possibly the most adorable child on the face of this Earth aside from her baby sister.) Never mind that we’re spending a fortune on tuition, on top of which is the constant barrage of fundraising requests. It never ends with these people. Gia herself could have taken better pictures. Maybe Nikki and I should volunteer our own photography services (naturally at a premium price). We could pay for a couple of months of school for Gia inside of an hour.
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Hi Keith, It’s Maggie. I saw this post and had to comment. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the memories only gets more costly from here. My oldest is a senior in high school so this year alone his costs for enrollment, Homecoming plus all the things he needed to get for his date, class ring, Senior pictures (which skyrocketed out of control from Junior year), Cap and Gown fees, graduation announcements and invitations and of course Prom run into the thousands. Then there are the academic costs of college app fees, entrance exam fees, a graphing calculator for his advance math class. If it weren’t for the fact that I am too exhausted to think past the expense as I write out yet another check I would swear its some sort of guilt conspiracy against parents – “What kind of parent are you to deny your child _________ when everyone else has this.”
Yet would I do it again?? In a heartbeat! This time goes so quickly and here I stand looking at a wonderful young man who I thought was the most adorable baby boy on this earth just yesterday. It makes spending that $45 for mediocre pictures priceless…
Cheers, Maggie