Reminiscing

I've got a gazillion pictures stored in folders on my computer. Clear back from when we got our first digital camera in 2001. Each folder is dated with the date that I uploaded them. So it's pretty easy to find what I'm looking for when I go back to search for pictures for slideshows or scrapbooking or to share with someone. Recently, I started going through them and deleting the ones that I didn't want. Often, I'll take 10-20 pictures of the same thing and end up liking only two or three. Once I upload them, I rarely get around to deleting the ones that aren't so good. But to clear up some space on our hard drive, that's what I've been doing the past week or so. My criteria is that if I might possibly use it in a slideshow one day, I'll keep it. If not, I'm hitting the delete button. I've already printed the ones I wanted and put them in a scrapbook (at least most of them!... I am a little behind!). Plus all of them are backed up a cd.

Oh my! What fun I'm having reminiscing, looking at the pictures of my cuties when they were little winky tinks. It's been fun and bittersweet to see how their looks have changed from baby babies to little people. My girls still have the same spark in their eyes that they've had from the beginning... the same cute little mischievous grins that capture everyone's heart. But they're also growing up before my eyes, in warp speed as I go through folder after folder. There are newborn pictures, pictures of "firsts," pictures from holidays, the county fair, our yearly camping adventures, seasonal pictures, and just day-to-day fun. Pictures that one day we'll look back on and giggle and possibly even cry, as loved ones in the pictures are no longer with us.

I am currently up to summer of 05 so I have plenty more to go through.

Hmmm... maybe I should start a new folder for pics that I can show to their (way in the) future boyfriends. I can think of a couple that I know will embarrass them. Hee Hee Hee....

Ok, I'm off to reminisce some more...