When you work for a school photography company, everyday is picture day. So often, we have to remind ourselves that even though we think about picture day every single day, the schools we service only think about it a couple of times a year.
Well, today was one of those times at my daughter's school. Hannah is in Kindergarten at a school we just acciqured. It was a very unique experience to be at the school setting up equipment, numbering barcodes and getting everything ready for the kids when I knew that our first customers would be my own daughter's class. Not only was I there as a photographer's assistant, I was there as a mom. A proud mom of a Kindergartener. I experience picture day everyday, but this was her very FIRST picture day. Her teacher knew I was there and so she called Hannah out first. She got to be first! It is a true honor to go first because you get to hold the sign that tells us what class you are in and make a silly face. Then, we take the real thing.
It was amazing how quickly I turned into an assistant, instead of being her mom. I posed her up just as I would any other kid, but I BEAMED with pride when she flashed her precious, toothless grin. She did great and I was there. Not as the overbearing, overprotective mom, but as the help.
Tomorrow I will go to another school and I will go through the exact same routine, with more Kindergarteners having their first picture day. But, I will never forget today because I got to do what I love most, being a mom, while I was on the job.
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