Every year
when the holidays arrive we are immersed into a month of all things jolly.
There’s the music, the movies, the decorations, the parties, the cards, the
eggnog, the cookies, the cookies oh and the cookies! Out of all the things that
let us know that yes it is almost time for the big fat jolly guy in the red
suit to arrive; there is one that is by far my all -time favorite…the infamous
Santa picture.
Every year
come December parents from near and far can be found breaking out into a sweat
getting their cute little Johnny into his perfect little holiday outfit with a
matching cap, or hoping and praying that little Sally doesn’t spit up all over
her perfect little dress before they get to the front of the 5 ½ mile line at
the mall. We can be found bribing our
kids to get along while we wait because “Santa is watching” for Pete’s sake HE’S
RIGHT THERE! PLEASE STOP FIGHTING!!! We
spend more time prepping our children for these pictures than we spend prepping
ourselves all week long. (Okay maybe that’s just me.)
After all
the preparation and waiting on a never ending line many of these pictures don’t
go the way we planned in our minds. I
will never forget when my now 5 year old was 17 months. I picked out a cute
little outfit and dragged my husband with me for the Santa picture because I
was determined to use it for our card that year. The picture I had in my head
was my 17 month old sitting on Santa’s lap with a perfect little smile even if
it meant me jumping up and down behind the camera trying to get him to laugh
all while my husband just rolled his eyes at my insanity. I was fine with that.
The only
thing that went as planned was parking the car and walking into the
building. The rest went something like
this:
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| Is that Santa?! This is awesome! |
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Okay so we are going to go over to the other side of this fence at some point? Hmm. Not sure about that.   
.
And so we left. Don't worry we treated the poor kid to an
ice cream sundae afterwards and trust me he was smiling from ear to ear. I
remember saying to my husband, well so much for a Santa picture for our card.
He laughed and agreed that it hadn't gone the way we thought it would. Later
that night we got home and as I looked over the pictures I couldn't help but
start laughing. I decided to use the pictures for our card anyway and people
absolutely loved it. I mean let's face it the holidays can get stressful, with
all the shopping, the crazy family, and the running around it's hard sometimes
to just sit back and smile. These pictures made us do just that. I know one day
I will show them to my son and he will laugh. It's kind of like a childhood rite
of passage. Every kid has to have some ridiculous picture with Santa for their
photo book. Clearly we can check that
off the list.
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AHAHAAH!!!!! OMG this is a hilarious post. I love how you walked us through the dream to reality through photos. Too good. Thanks for sharing lol
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. :) Glad you liked it.
DeleteHysterical. Those pictures are priceless. Now keep them handy, you'll need to bring them out every year at Christmas time once your son's old enough to have a girlfriend. See, they do a little embarrassing of us when they're younger but we moms, we get them back!
ReplyDeleteLove the walk-through. Our girls are fine until the hand-off. Once we pass them off to Santa it's all over. They can be super excited and screaming with joy, but once they are sitting on his lap they suddenly realize that they have been set on fire.
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ReplyDeleteAll the photos are very good!
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