So they will take (according to Mack) not one, not two, not three, but five photos of your child, until they know they have one that will meet with your approval.

Take THAT, children with mediocre school pictures and easy-going mothers.

I am leaving Friday for a scrapbooking week-end with friends. I get to spend all day at a hotel in my sweats (or as I like to call them, “day jammies”) looking at adorable pictures of my family, without them there to remind me that life is not always as perfect as said photographs. No cooking, no cleaning, no laundry; bags of M&Ms strewn around the table. Heaven.

The downside? I had not gone through our digital pictures in almost a year. (Gee we baked a lot of Christmas cookies last year! And what do you know, Kaylee lost a tooth!) I had literally thousands of pictures to wade through. I forgot that we figured out the high speed drive function on our camera, making it possible to take 10 pictures in a row, perfect for trying to get the perfect action shot in soccer, baseball, gymnastics, etc. Which means I could look at 100 pictures and find maybe three half-decent ones. But after a solid week of doing nothing but stare at a computer screen; editing, uploading, ordering; I am now back in the real world.

And it is FULL of laundry.