mommy fail, mommy to the rescue

I had a mommy fail. Anna was super excited for picture day at school. Since she has been homeschooled up until this year, this would be her first time participating in school photos and she was so excited!!!!!! We wrote it on our calendars, we talked about what she would wear, how we would do her hair, and all that jazz. I remember thinking about it earlier in the week and then come Wednesday night it had completely escaped my brain. Anna went to school on Thursday morning wearing an outfit, an all brown one- nothing fancy and very plain. She did her own hair and I waved goodbye at drop off not even questioning why some little girls were dressed so fancy getting our of their cars. I went to pick Anna up after school and knew immedietly when I saw her face that something was wrong. I connected the dots in the short walk she had to the car (us moms are cool like that) and by the time she closed the car door she was crying and so sad that she WAS THE ONLY ONE in her whole class that forgot it was picture day. I guess picture day is a big deal in 3rd grade. I listened, I comforted, I apolagized, and I told her I would make it up to her. What a blessing it is that I'm a photographer and have some pretty amazing skills (yes I just bragged). So we decided to do our own little photo shoot and if I do say so myself, I'm pretty sure these are better than any school picture she will get (yes I bragged again, it's my blog so I'm cool with that). All is well in her world now.