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When my Mac Hardrive crashed - I lost all of the pictures that were in iPhoto that I never copied over to the external. I just kept putting it off. BAD IDEA. Any way - the only happiness about that is that I blog. So I still have decent sized photos and they are some of the better ones from that event, I suppose. Events like . . . Eric's Graduation, Troy's graduation, When Lisa visited us in DC, Eric's marathon, our NYC & Williamsburg trips. At the time I couldn't remember what was lost (i.e. our first year of marriage) in that stupid program (the program makes it difficult to back up the pictures). But HAPPY DAY I finished my blog books & remembered what we did that first year. So although I'm a little down, no one prints out pictures anymore & I don't really go through those 10000 digital prints any way. My goal (besides backing up pictures & keeping them better organized) is to take less photos but better quality photos. i.e. I need to go through all the non perfect ones & delete them. Do you know how hard that is? You will tell me just keep them. They're digital. You have a TB of space. But look - it secretly overwhelms me to have 1000000 pictures on my drives. I've decided at this point in my life - I don't want "stuff" just to have stuff. Including pictures. But I'm dang freakin excited about the blog books. My journal with pictures I guess you could say - a keep sake ;) It took awhile, which makes me want to blog less BUT I value the past & in a weird way, it pushes me forward. 

Mr Smith made me buy the $5 pdf versions too if anyone wants a copy. I published my heavenforbidiwait blog & the mrsmithandi blog up to May 2013.

I'm not sure what I will do for the children... I thought about using basic pages & corner rounds to just place 4X6 photos in an album. I can just add as I go (no fancy cuts & all that mess) but what if I just waited until they were 18 & published them a fatty book. It's tempting. But that's a lot of years to catch up on in one project. So you tell me if you have anything brilliant in mind. I want one book for each kid to have when they leave the house.
Oh tear.

If you are curious for your own blog or whatever, it cost me $46 for "Mr Smith & I" 122 pgs & $52 for "Hello Dear" 146 pgs (which includes the pdf versions, premium paper, 8X10 image wrapped hard back cover & shipping) It's a lot for me. Which is why I will have a panic attack when I hit "place order" (because I want it to be perfect when I spend that kind of money) BUT it's our family history, which is priceless. It would have been $150 total but I got a 25% off code for November. check out retailmenot.com. Yay!

 I owe Mr Smith a big thanks for pushing me to do this.


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