Picture Day

Today was Jory’s picture day. Poor kid, three weeks into his math lessons, and his second week doing all subjects, except Bible, he already has picture day.

Everyone from Southern California Christian Academy was there to take pictures. Jory and I arrived right on time so he was one of the first to take pictures at 10:40 and the school picture wasn’t until noon. What to do? What to do? I stood around for a while, talked to the one family I knew, but they were old timers so they knew everyone who walked up so we went our separate ways. Families chatted with each other, kids played, and I just stood there. Jory was begging me to go to the playground area so I gave him.

What a relief from standing there feeling awkward, my handsome baby played while I talked on my cell phone. Thank God for cell phones, the cure for standing in a room or park full of strangers. You just open your phone and talk to someone who knows you.

Eventually we did go back and talked to some people we knew, then it was back to awkwardly sitting there. Why in the world did I get out the car without something to write on and with or a book or both? Note to self, never do that again.

When we took the school picture, a woman introduced herself to me because she thought she recognized me from the pool party. She seemed nice and it was her first year of homeschooling too. We could have chatted more, but I was starving and it was time to go back to work, so that was that.

Functions with strangers is just the worst thing in the world for me. I wish I had an identical twin, so I could have a built in free who could go with me wherever I go so I’d always have someone to talk to.