back to school

In my dreams I oversleep, arrive with bed head and find myself naked in a classroom full of peers. Ah, school. Ah, the innerworkings of our childhood subconscious. In reality, I was the kid eager to organize her school supplies and counted down the days til the first day of school... and the "sweater weather" that arrived soon after.

There is really only one day of the year where I make him pose. It's the obligatory back-to-school mom shot that lives in all of our childhood photo albums and (hopefully) lives in a shoebox somewhere today in this digital age.

There are reasons I don't like posing portraits, they tend to lack personality. And yet for the once-a-year-rule-breaker, I seem to like the ridiculousness of it all. I especially like how he goes along with it, and the result turns out to be more of a non-pose-pose. This of course seems to reflect the energy and butterflies and antics that come on the morning with the first day of school.

What are your childhood memories of school? If you have school age children, what sort of memories are you creating for these milestones? I'll be printing these images and tucking them into our shoebox. Later in life, he'll find them and cringe and remember his own dreams that came with today.

Share some photos with us today and if you have a back-to-schooler be sure to tag it #shuttersisters so we can all revel in this tradition!

Comments

[Gabriele]

Don't you love looking in school rooms on the first day? Take a peek, please.
http://backontheflooragain.blogspot.com/2012/09/design-mom-in-my-family-part-two-back.html

[Dotti]

This year, the back to schooler was my kindergarten granddaughter:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dottirinehart/7784731838/in/photostream

[christine]

I love the way you set this shot up.

[Jakki]

Our "back to school" was a couple weeks ago and "cough cough"...my back to schooler is NOT happy that I was taking photo's of him so I had to get a couple shots on the sly...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64139800@N06/7814852526/in/photostream

[Gabriela]

Back to school was a few weeks ago for us and with it came back the lunch pre-packing in the evenings...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gamaraca/7841158698/in/photostream

[Kathleen O.]

I said, "Wait!"
Big sigh from the boy. "OK. Picture. Deck. Fine."
He let me to the deck and gave me a fraction of a second to snap away, so eager to get to school and friends and routine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ko2008/7890347772/in/photostream

[melissa]

Very sweet picture.

Three of my four little ones gathered around the table this morning to start another year of homeschooling. Here is one of them ..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melissatalbert/7933615436/in/photostream

[Krista]

I did not take pics this year... The rain was far too heavy. Maybe we will have to fake some in a couple of days.

[Vanessa]

he is such a handsome young man...
We haven't started official school yet, but I am sure I will make them pose on the front porch, lunch box and back pack in tow.

[georgia]

awesome, merideth. you have done exactly here what you set out to do. it's perfect. but then, i'm not surprised, being that it's you. i love this.

you've actually described me when you describe yourself as a young school girl. i was so that way myself. made me smile to think of it. made me miss school and being that age. i can't wait until my son is that age, too. i can't wait to live vicariously through him.

love this shot.