Bad Hair Day

It was picture day at the school where I work on Monday. It was absolute torture for most of the kids who got their pictures taken and pure agony for all of us in the general vacinity.

I know most parents feel obligated to buy them, but are the pictures ever worth sharing or displaying? My kids always have that "I'm smiling!" cheesy smile face where they look more like they are gritting their teeth. Who ever thought it was a good idea to line up 5 year olds and then one by one make them sit on a black box with two bright lights shining on them? The picture lady tells them to "sit up straight, neck stretched, tilt your head, chin down, hands on knees, say squishy pickles and smile". Then when you are done you get handed a black, plastic comb. Yeah right...theses kids looked terrified!

So I went home and pulled out my picture from school at age 5. I don't look scared at all. I was a ham for any camera at that age but WTF happened to my hair? Seriously! Did I cut it myself or was this a "mommy home cut" or did a professional actually do this? These are questions I want answers to (Sue do you know?). I think this was the beginning of the many, many bad hair days I have had over the years. I so envy all the people who have nice hair. I do not! I have uncooperative hair. I could spend time on it in the morning, blow it dry, curl or even straighten it, spray it and it looks good for all of about 10 minutes. Then it goes back to just mouse brown, fly away, no style, yucky hair. My solution. Pull it back into a pony tail. I can make it until noon most days until I cannot stand it anymore and then it gets yanked back by a band. Sigh. At least I could smile nice for the camera!