Getting our Mother's Day pictures loaded on to my computer took some doing. Joe's fancy camera runs a regular route between home and school, so its general whereabouts tend to be a constant mystery to me. Often when I can find it, the memory card with the pictures I want is nowhere to be found. There are five or six cards that regularly circulate the same route as the camera, but not always at the same time. And sometimes, the memory card in question comes up missing; Joe usually misplaces things, but another problem is high school students and their sticky fingers. If something is in the art room, I think they believe that the item is up for grabs. They will take markers, scissors, paper, mat board, memory cards, digital cameras, Joe's sunglasses and watches, last week someone even took a can of spray adhesive!! Part of the problem is Joe's trusting nature, of course, but the other part is that kids are not all that good at realizing someone will miss that thing that was swiped. Note to parents....steal from your children so they realize how much it blows to lose things mysteriously. Good lesson, right?
Anyway, this past week has been a major struggle getting all the items that I needed in one place at one time to get the pictures that I wanted. But it finally happened.
Mother's Day is a celebration holiday that for some reason has become extremely important to me. I don't care much about birthdays, valentine's, anniversaries, etc....these are events that come and go before you realize it. Maybe it's because I feel that I've finally been indoctrinated into the society of mothers, so I feel entitled to good treatment on my big day. Well, I hate to disappoint those of you anxiously awaiting your first Mother's Day somewhere in your future. It isn't all it's cracked up to be. I hope that improves with time for me, but the two that I've had so far have been big, fat stinkers. I will not elaborate as to why I have had bad Mother's Days, but I'll just say that I'm still waiting to be appreciated. After some consulting with my girlfriends and family members, they usually have the same experience on Mother's Day, last Sunday being no exception.
My little joy from this Mother's Day was the photo shoot of me and Jacks at the Arboretum, which was Joe's last ditch effort to improve my day. Bad voodoo, or whatever ruins my Mother's Days, caused most of the pictures to be overexposed, but we managed to get a few good ones in. I attempted to fix some of the bad pictures in I-photo with some enhancement and special effects (see above and below).
I just hope everyone else had a much better Mother's Day than me!!
Oh - one more good thing i can account for from this Mother's Day - my sister sent me a plastic canvas, hand-made cottage. Whoever made this thing put a HUGE amount of work into it. If I had made it and sold it, I would have taken nothing less than $100 for the masterpiece. Carrie paid all of $3 for it - what a steal! Thanks, sister. I love it so much!
Anyway, this past week has been a major struggle getting all the items that I needed in one place at one time to get the pictures that I wanted. But it finally happened.
Mother's Day is a celebration holiday that for some reason has become extremely important to me. I don't care much about birthdays, valentine's, anniversaries, etc....these are events that come and go before you realize it. Maybe it's because I feel that I've finally been indoctrinated into the society of mothers, so I feel entitled to good treatment on my big day. Well, I hate to disappoint those of you anxiously awaiting your first Mother's Day somewhere in your future. It isn't all it's cracked up to be. I hope that improves with time for me, but the two that I've had so far have been big, fat stinkers. I will not elaborate as to why I have had bad Mother's Days, but I'll just say that I'm still waiting to be appreciated. After some consulting with my girlfriends and family members, they usually have the same experience on Mother's Day, last Sunday being no exception.
My little joy from this Mother's Day was the photo shoot of me and Jacks at the Arboretum, which was Joe's last ditch effort to improve my day. Bad voodoo, or whatever ruins my Mother's Days, caused most of the pictures to be overexposed, but we managed to get a few good ones in. I attempted to fix some of the bad pictures in I-photo with some enhancement and special effects (see above and below).
I just hope everyone else had a much better Mother's Day than me!!
Oh - one more good thing i can account for from this Mother's Day - my sister sent me a plastic canvas, hand-made cottage. Whoever made this thing put a HUGE amount of work into it. If I had made it and sold it, I would have taken nothing less than $100 for the masterpiece. Carrie paid all of $3 for it - what a steal! Thanks, sister. I love it so much!
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