Photographer's Nesting Syndrome

You know you have a large family when...

...your children feel sorry for families with only six or seven children.
...people ask if you're competing with the Duggars.
...even your friends aren't sure how many children you have.
...your family no longer fits in a 15 passenger van.
..complete strangers feel welcome to comment on your fertility and contraceptive methods.
...two of your daughters go for a walk...and get asked by a neighbor if they're foster kids.
...you have to carry three health insurance cards in your wallet- because that's how many it takes to fit everyone's name.
...you take the wrong child to the dentist...simply because your handwriting on the calendar was messy and both started with a "j".
...grocery shopping for 30 children and 12 adults for a two day camp constitutes a "small" shopping trip for you.
You find yourself relating some small incident to your husband and starting with the words, "Well, I only boiled twenty-six eggs for breakfast..."
...you buy a 40 pound box of bananas intending to make banana bread and freeze a bunch for smoothies...but your children eat them all first.
...you find an afternoon root canal relaxing.
...it takes you twenty-three minutes on the phone to schedule your children's dental appointments.
...you've given up on using your toaster entirely and make all of your toast under the broiler in you oven.
...you are seriously tempted by the stacking cribs you see at Goodwill for $19.99.
...you find yourself thinking, "Wow, the house is so quiet and peaceful with only nine children".
...you have enough children to constitute not one, but TWO large families.
...you have a laundry basket devoted entirely to lonely socks seeking their mate.
...when you got to buy your children those cool "spin toothbrushes" because you think they get their teeth so much cleaner...but the store doesn't carry enough styles/colors for your children to each have a different toothbrush.
...when you can't take all of your children to the doctor's office at the same time because the waiting room has only 10 seats.
...when you still have seven children that are required by law to sit in a carseat or booster seat.
...you call the doctor to get your children tetnus shots, and they tell you they don't have enough in the office and need to order more from the health department.
...you take up more than one entire pew in church.
...you take only half of your children to the library, and STILL get asked if they're all yours.
...you go to fill your children's flouride prescription at the phamacy and you clean them out of every pill they have...and it's still not enough.
...you spend sixty dollars on socks...and not everyone gets new socks.
...you go shopping at Costco and the cashier asks if you're having a soccer barbecue.

April 03, 2010

That's what one of my friends called it when I mentioned on Facebook that I had cleared 1,500+ photos off of my computer. I had to agree, it really did make sense. The need to clean, purge, organize.

I shoot all of my photos in RAW, so the files are huge. And because they are RAW instead of jpeg, I can't just upload them to be printed. It requires, at the very minimum, that every photo be converted to jpeg. And of course there are all the little adjustments I can do in Photoshop. I do not fiddle with every snapshot I take...I take way too many photos to even make that possible. Buy my point is, purging my computer of photos is an involved, lengthy process. And I have been at it again. This time I have converted and filed all of the photos I intend to scrapbook, uploaded my snapshots for print, and put the whole lot of them onto my hard drive. Yay me.

In the process of doing all this (and dare I say- getting caught up) I have been scrapbooking long over due photos- before they disappear into the realm of my hard drive or a shoe box. So, without further ado, more new pages: