59 - I love my pics

I can't get this far behind again with printing my pictures! I haven't printed any pictures since December. For a normal person, that might not be so bad, but for my obsessed-with-taking-pictures self, that's awful! 326 pics I am picking up tomorrow. I am overwhelmed at the thought of organizing them all. And of course scrapbooking some for Eli's book. Notice I said "some." I used to scrapbook EVERYthing. I've always known when I had children, I would probably have to adjust my expectations of my scrapbooking and how I organize and display my photos. I am definitely making baby E a traditional, first year scrapbook, with all of his "firsts" in it. Am thinking I will also have a "family" album that is a slide-in album, so not all of those will be "scrapbooked" but at least organized, with journal cards so I know what was going on at the time. I did get for Christmas some new page protectors that allow you to make a 12x12 page, then the next page can hold 4 or 5 pictures that you slide in, or some protectors that allow for 9 or 12 4x4 pictures to slide in- it's a neat system. Kind of the best of both worlds, if you want to scrapbook a page you can, then slide in extra pictures so you don't have to spend a ton of time on all 12x12 layouts. I have made some digital scrapbooks, and I do like those. But I still like my paper and glue, being able to manipulate the pictures and paper and manually cropping them, etc. Adding on brads, and ribbons. I love looking at the final product. So for now, I can't see giving up on scrapbooking, even though I have not done any of Eli's book yet! I have sorted about 2 months of pictures and started on his first pages, but just barely. Whenever I have down time, I usually spend it taking a nap (because E is sleeping), or doing more 'necessary' things like cleaning or laundry or something. The more time passes however, I am more determined to set aside some time and get working on his book. It's just a matter of Doing It! I'm giving myself a pep talk as I type, can you tell?! So after I pick up all 328 pictures tomorrow, I am making it a goal this week to get them sorted and dated. Baby steps.....