photo albums

Many of you know that I've been using a certain online photo service for years. We generally get our Christmas cards printed there, and I've created countless photo albums over the years.

In fact, for Rose's birthday each year, I've started a new album, worked on it slowly throughout the year, then printed it as a birthday gift (more for myself than for her, if I'm being really honest!), before starting the new one for the next year every April.

Well, a few months ago they "upgraded" their website and lost NINE MONTHS of my work on her age-3-to-4 album. ARGH!!!! I debated starting all over again, but not only did they lose the formatting of my photos into the albums, but they also lost about 75% of my photos themselves. As a result, redoing all that work would take countless hours of sorting through the hundreds of pictures on my hard drive, picking which ones to include, uploading them, and then reformatting them into a new album. Ugh.

So, after much internal strife, I finally decided to just let go of this project.  Sigh.

As life gets busier and I keep working on finding balance, I am continually evaluating what brings me joy vs. what I think I "should" be doing.  And I realized that these albums definitely brought me joy when she was a baby, but at this point in my life I think I could get similar joy from simply keeping this blog up to date.

Easier, and with similarly joyful results? Sounds like a win all around!

Hopefully this means you can look forward to more frequent updates from me :)