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How will you spend your child’s first day of school this year?

You did all the requisite back-to-school shopping. You rehearsed them all week for a new school bedtime and wake-up schedule. You worked through heated discussions over outfits laid out the night before, helped organize school supplies, packed backpacks and lunches. You fussed over their summer reading lists and wrote that get-to-know-my-child letter to the teacher.

Now that their hair is nicely combed and shoes are shined (okay, maybe just the laces are tied), the least you can do for yourself and proof of what you’ve accomplished is….TAKE A PICTURE!

Photography probably isn’t what came to mind, but you will be doing yourself a favor. Snap a few great pictures now on this first day, and you just might have yourself the perfect personalized holiday card photo.  Try out some clever tricks, with props and poses such as:

• Have kids each hold a sign with their name, grade and teacher written on it
• Go for a candid as they get on the bus
• Start (or continue) an annual photo tradition by taking the picture in the same exact location as last year
• Try for “before” and “after” shots as they get on the bus in the morning and off in the afternoon.

These first day of school photos will be treasures for you, and certainly make ideal pictures for your personalized holiday cards. Whether good enough as stand alone photos or used with other photos in a collage-style holiday card, you can decide once you get them developed.

It may feel a bit premature to be thinking about how you’ll make holiday cards this year. But wouldn’t it be nice to know you’ve already got a great photo. And, when you’re ready, you’ll find a huge selection of original, exciting personalized holiday cards at www.looklovesend.com. Easy to use online personalization tools let you see exactly how your photos will look on any card design. Change the look of a regular photo to black and white, sepia tone, or zoom in or out. Now you can head out to the mall, go for that jog, or curl up with a good book. Or, as the case may be, just get back to work.