Our daughter was home for the Thanksgiving weekend, and she happened to ask about her Grad pictures. I told her where the proofs were, and said I'd been thinking about them that week. She pulled them out of the drawer, and with a shriek of horror saw "expires August 31, 2005" at the bottom of the page. I assured her that the expiry date was only for the early ordering offers and special coupons. She wasn't convinced, but I kept my cool.
This week, after she was back to school in Alberta, I took a good look at the papers. I must confess that I was getting very nervous about the whole ordering thing. It really did look like one might not be able to order graduation portraits after the end of August.
I just finished phoning the number.
I talked to a nice lady who assured me that they keep proofs on file for 2 years after pictures are taken, so a 2005 graduate has until the end of the 2007 school year to get pictures made.
Whew.
I'll go get the chosen proofs ready to mail.
That was a close one.
And now you have totally blown your cover as the world's most perfect mom. YIKES
ReplyDeletei HATE it when those unknown deadlines jump out of nowhere and cause panic and anxiety until resolved.
ReplyDeletehowever, we had a pleasant deadline surprise the other day....we had gotten a coupon for a free 2nd home energy evaluation (after they've done the first and you've done the upgrades), but i thought it was long expired. We booked the evaluation anyways, given that we needed to get it done, and presto! I found the coupon and it's good as long as your first evaluation is before the 31st of Oct, which ours is! Yay! It's like finding money in a pocket you hadn't looked in for years.