I Just Wanted One Picture
>> Thursday, November 18, 2010
As you will soon see, I love Christmas. I love lots of things about the holiday, but one thing I really enjoy is sending, and receiving Christmas cards. For the last 4 or 5 years, hubby and I have always sent out picture cards that we, I mean I, create on Snapfish. Obviously last year the card was totally C focused, with a picture of him sitting on Santa's lap at the mall, and two smaller pictures of him in a Santa suit taken at JC Penney.
So this year, I made my holiday portraits appointment nice and early, for this past Tuesday at 11am. My mom came to the mall to meet us, and I arrived at the portrait studio at 10:50. I of course saw a ton of other toddlers and preschoolers waiting for their pre-nap portrait appointments. But C was in great spirits running around the lower level of JC Penney, eating goldfish and drinking juice. We were as patient as possible, but the wait was getting ridiculous.
They finally called us at 12:10. Note, this was over an HOUR after our scheduled appointment. And past lunch time, and butting up to nap time. (You might already see where this story is going).
I attempted to put C's red Christmas sweater on, and for some reason, he did not like this. And proceeded to freak out and cry. And which point I knew, this portrait session was probably not going to happen. We (meaning me, my mom and the nice photographer lady) tried to salvage it by using toys as a distraction. When he went running to his stroller and started grabbing his coat and saying "Jacket" we even considered doing a jacket pose with the fake tree/snow background. But no. We were done. Not even one picture was snapped.
So we are going to try back on Friday with a much earlier appointment. But, before we left, I did get a little "Sheree" on the poor photographer, who clearly is not in charge of booking appointments 10 minutes apart. Now I understand that you get what you pay for in this world, but seriously JC Penney??? Can't you give each person 15, or 20 minutes, therefor not getting as behind schedule causing 20 month old toddlers to have to wait over an hour and then have a meltdown and not even get any pictures? It's not rocket science, but it is Christmas. 'Tis the season for mall insanity, cranky parents and toddler meltdowns!
5 comments:
My local Sears is that way too - always overbooked and running behind. I try to make appts for first thing in the morning. It's Ish's best time and the best way to avoid 2 hour back-ups!
Ugh, that sucks! At least you were able to get an appointment on Friday - I know a lot of places ate all booked up now!
LOL! I'm not laughing at you, but with you. We attempted a family photo shoot this past weekend. My husband has professional level camera equipment, and we had a friend who is a photographer come to our house. I scheduled the shoot after SB's nap and snack. Should have perfect, right? Yeah...
http://www.thewriterrevived.com/2010/11/wordless-wednesday-family-photo-shoot.html
Good luck on Friday!
My cousin once did her kids Christmas pictures in August at Sears. It was awesome we were the only ones there and had so much time.
Just a thought :)
I hear you, this was us last year,except we had the ENTIRE family, all brothers and sisters and kids...so we had to wait it out!
We're not doing formal portraits this year, I'm just gonna have the bff snap a few pics of us on Thanksgiving and then snapfish it!
Happy Holidays Lady!
Lisa
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