Today I am sitting at my desk, begrudgingly writing out cheques for my children's annual crappy photo shoot, A.K.A., their school pictures. It pains me to pay for these because they are spectacularly bad, although not as spectacularly bad as last year where I refused to purchase them all together. I seriously don't get it. We live in a digital age people. Can these photography companies not look at the picture and say, "Maybe your mom won't like the way you're grimacing there. Let's try …