Laughing Your Way through Infertility: It’s Picture Day!
Let’s face it, picture day is a big deal. They forever capture a moment in time of school-age awkwardness. These are the stuff legends are made of and soon your Instagram and Facebook newsfeed will be flooded with your friends showing off their children’s cute annual school photo. You will see each picture and sigh (maybe even roll your eyes in jealousy) as you look forward to the day when you can hopefully brush your kiddo’s hair just so, dress them to the nines and beg them to smile beautifully for the camera. However, until that day arrives, let’s laugh out our sorrows and jealousy woes by looking at a few school pictures that didn’t go as planned, shall we?
I’ll start off with my own, but let me just say that my very first school picture was absolutely adorable. Just look at that puppy dog turtle neck and pink suspenders. CUTE!
After that, each picture turned into nothing but sheer horror and blackmail material for my brother. Can you believe the picture below was a retake? My hair looks like a peeled onion! The first one I took weeks earlier was worse if that is even possible.
But enough about me! Let’s move on to some real dandy’s!
I’ve come to realize after viewing the following school pictures, I won’t always be around to control and make sure everything goes smooth and perfect in their lives…
Maybe I could volunteer on picture day and lend out a hairbrush or two…
It looks as though I will be putting my foot down when it comes to bringing props. YIKES!
It appears an outfit can either make or break a school photo…
They say every picture tells a story but I’m not sure what story these pictures are telling…
It’s obvious. School pictures capture it all and I can’t help but look forward to one day embarrassing my future baby birds with their awkward phases and astounding fashion sense. But until I am able to plaster their pictures all over social media, I will just have to settle on embarrassing my parents with their ah-may-zing school photos.
Nice pig tails Mommers! At least they are even on both sides.
Awesome bow tie Daddyo!
Thank you for reading this edition of “Laughing Your Way through Infertility” and if you need some additional humor or missed the last post, “Labor Day for Men”, then you can find it and many others by clicking here. As always, I hope you have a great week and don’t forget to find time to laugh and enjoy the journey while you are on the path to reaching your destination.
XOXO
Your school pictures are adorable! I’d be way too embarrassed to share mine. Can you say “BAD PERM?” Only I didn’t get just one…I had many. LOL!! Those pictures had me in stitches. I mean, really? WHAT were they thinking? Thanks for making me laugh on a Monday morning!! LOVE YOU
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I’m glad they gave you a good laugh today! My favorite is the kid who took off his shoes to show off his socks. What the heck? And the guy without his shirt on? oh.my.word! LOL!
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Yes, the Halloween socks! That was hilarious!! My second favorite one was the guy with the fan and umbrella. Oh, my…it is just too much! LOL
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Hilarious!!! Everyone has an awkward picture or two, but yours are actually kinda cute 😉 xo
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You mean you liked the one where my hair was pulled back like a peeled onion? YIKES!
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Your school pictures are just adorable!! LOL about the rest though, too funny!! I hope your Monday goes smoothly 🙂
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Thank you so much! I hope you have a great week too! xo
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Yours were really cute, and your mom’s and dad’s weren’t too bad either! The others however…*shudder*
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hahaha! I had so many others I could have posted! lol! I hope you have a great Monday! 🙂
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Too funny!! Thank you for finding my blog, BTW. I was reading through some of your blogs last night, I just got too tired to comment on anything. I’m happy to be following along your journey now 🙂
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awe thank you so much! I am so thankful I found your blog as well 🙂 I hope you have a great week!
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Who needs brushes? I’ll tell you a secret. One of my proudest eighth grade moments was when my best friend was acknowledged as one of the highest haired girls in school. Yes, it looked like the second teased one.
And I would bet you real money that my brothers, now 17 and 22, would be hugely embarrassed by their school picture collection plastered on my fridge. 🙂
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bahaha! Too funny!!!
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OMG. You’re just a doll!! The rest of the pictures are hilarious! Gotta love the topless guy looking longingly into the bright lamps! Haha
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right?! Why is he topless? And the kid who took his shoes off….why?
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I couldn’t stop looking at his socks! Looked like they had jack o lanterns on em. Maybe it was October. Maybe????
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Thanks for the laughs! I knew your post would be good from the get go. I love how you try and bring the humor into situations for all of us that seem so dismal and hopeless. Keep it up…it is so much appreciated!
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So glad to hear! I know that for me, if I don’t sometimes laugh (at least a little bit) while on this journey, I will surely cry all the time. I hope you have a great week!
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These are hysterical! You were adorable!!! I can’t stop laughing at each of these, HA! Happy Monday!
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This one was fo’sho’ fun finding pictures for on Google! I spent waaaay more time than necessary finding some good ones to add. LOL! Supper, laundry, and dishes were all put on hold! LOL!
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No, I want MORE of you!!! I vote we get a picture of you in every grade… next Monday! Do it 🙂
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LOL! Oh dear! Junior year was a rough year for pictures…lol!
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Love these! The comic book pic reminds me of my brother. Don’t tell him I said that.
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bahahahaha! Your secret is safe with me 🙂
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So cute!! Love this post. 🙂
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Thanks Suzanne! xo
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LOLz
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Hahahaha you always choose the best featured images!! Lol
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Sometimes it’s so hard to narrow them down 🙂 lol
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No kidding. My high school is doing yearbook photos tomorrow. Spot on.
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hahaha! You might want to volunteer and take a hair brush or two…hehe
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oh dear there are some absolute SHOCKERS in there…yours are perfect in comparison!!! I feel sorry for my future kids…i have a feeling my hubby will deliberately make their childhood photos traumatic in someone haha!
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I found so many “shockers” on the internet that I was certain I would probably run across someone’s picture that I knew. LOL! We all have “those” pictures. hehe
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Hilarious!!!! Thank you for making me chuckle! ❤
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