Elly — Well, today I copied our picture archives onto the Mac and went from ~200 to almost 3,000 pictures. And I’m still missing 2007. And there are suspicious gaps in the dates, although it is certainly possible that I really did go for 3 months at a time without taking pictures. :) Mostly I have several hundred photos of each of the children’s first three months, and then smatterings here and there in between. Anyway, I think it will take me some time to slog through the archives. It’s a sitting-down job, though, that’s good for cloudy days, and now that it’s started there’s definitely a momentum going.

So far it’s seemed like a job that appeared to be more difficult and time-consuming that it has turned out to be. I hope once you start in on yours it’ll be the same! Maybe you should wait for that last-month-of-the-pregnancy-and-you-don’t-want-to-do-anything stage, too. :)

Picture organization is one of my on going projects too. I am now facing 25 years worth of paper photos that need to be scanned into computer memory for posterity’s sake. It seems overwhelming at times, and I keep toying with the idea of splurging and having a professional do it for me!