Friday, August 31, 2012

I'm a little pack rat, short and stout...

I will readily admit that I have some minor hoarding tendencies. (This is not good for someone living in an ~800-square-foot house!) This recently became apparent yet again when I realized that I've been saving all of Rose's "report cards" to date.  Mike and I both love looking at her report cards each day - they tell us when she ate, how many wet/dirty diapers she had, what activities she did, etc.:






But I'm starting to think that maybe I don't need to save them after we review the info, especially since I've never gone back to review an old report card in the six weeks that we've been getting them. Right now our my stack looks like this:




I can only imagine how tall the stack will be by the time she starts kindergarten!

The nerdy part of me is curious to graph all the data to see if there are eating or sleeping trends. (Wouldn't that be fascinating? I love statistics!) But I also realize that doing so would immediately and irrevocably  push me into "crazy obsessive mom" territory.

So I guess it's time to cut the cord and recycle them, right? Oh, but it's hard to get rid of things with sentimental value, especially things with data!  What to do, what to do....

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Kristian thinks graphing them and statistically analyzing them is totally reasonable, and he would tell you if you were getting into crazy obsessive mom territory. :) Hope you're doing well! -Catalina