Every year at this time I go through the same set of arguments with myself.  My son’s birthday is in February and every year I have to decide whether or not to take him to get his pictures taken by an actual photographer.  (Here’s last years post about it).  It seems like such a waste of money, and yet somehow I feel guilty about not taking him.

Since he has been 3 for 3 months I figured that I’m at the point where I have to take him or skip it.  If I wait much longer he is going to be closer to 4.  So yesterday I found a coupon at Sears with no sitting fee and buy one get one free sheets.  I figured that was a good deal.  My best memory is that sheets are $7.99, and I don’t need a ton, two or three sheets should be plenty.  So I figure I can get out of there for less than $20.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Either I’m crazy or prices have gone way up.  It was $16.99 for a sheet, and the buy one get one free is for the same pose only.  So if I want 3 different poses, which I did, then I had to buy 3 $16.99 sheets.  I spent $55.  Was it worth it?  I don’t know, not right now.  But they are nice to have and when the kids are grown I’m going to treasure all their pictures.  Will it be worth it then?  Probably.

But man he was cute.  He’s pretty shy and the photographer lady was kinda freaking him out.  He just stood there with a totally blank face.  He would do whatever she told him, put your hands in your pockets, sit down, look this way, ect… but he would not smile.  It was hilarious.  But somehow he does have smiles in his pictures.  And I know that in the background I’m giving an over the top reaction to a stranger tickling me with a stuffed frog.  haha.

One thing that I cannot believe is how much they expect you to spend on pictures.  It’s insane!  I sit down at the little table with the photographer and she starts explaining all the packages.  The first one was $350!  My mind kind of glazed over after that, so I’m not sure what the others were.  Here I was planning on spending $20 and she is talking $350.  I don’t think so lady.  Luckily I don’t have that much family, I’m just getting them for myself.  One 5×7 of each cute pose is good enough.

How much do you spend on professional pictures of your kids?

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