The end of one year and the start of another always
increases my “to-do” list by a mile. Work, of course, has a million things to
close out, put away, re-start and do-better. So does home: thank-you cards,
Christmas stuff put away, taxes, yearly lists compiled in completion, pictures
backed up. The latter is always a ton of work, but also a lot of fun.
I’m a little bit OCD (I’m sorry – CDO) when it comes to
backing up the hundreds of pictures Ed and I take every year. I’m especially so
since between phone changes we nearly lost all the pictures from the first year
of Emry’s life. Since then, I back up a
lot. And while I am making a serious attempt in giving my children photo
albums (or books, as the case may be) since who doesn’t love curling up and
looking at old photos (not curling up
and scrolling on a laptop), I simply cannot possibly include the nearly 1,000
pictures taken every year in a book. So on top of drives that back up the
pictures for myself, I also have drives for both Emry and Ethan with their
pictures on them. A little over the top? Maybe…but if they don’t want them,
they can throw them out someday. Honestly, I won’t care.
Meanwhile, it’s been great fun scrolling through those
pictures and short videos of Emry and Ethan over the past few years. One night,
Ed and I watched the twenty or so short videos we have of Emry over the first
year of her life. One was during her first Christmas. She’s lying on the floor
under the Christmas tree. Ed’s train is going around and around, but she has no
interest in that. She’s pulling at her favorite ornament: a large bell painted
like a bird. It’s very cute but not laughable…so I had to ask why Ed started
laughing at it.
“Look at it,” he said. “There’s my coffee cup, probably full
of coffee, not two feet from her. And she doesn’t even try to get it. Ethan? That thing would have been knocked over
before we started the video!”
He’s right. No wonder some days I feel completely exhausted!
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