Overwhelmed!

Somehow, the summer got away from me. I am officially disorganized! We all just do whatever we have to survive around our house! There is no method to our madness. It's been kind of a soul-searching kinda couple weeks. My first baby turned 5 on Thursday. I was feeling sad and sentimental about it for at least a week prior. I am so proud of her and amazed at how grown up she is and how much she's changing but it's sad to see her grow up and think of how fast the time has gone. That leads me to feel sad that my baby baby is turning 1 in two weeks. Now, HE has grown fast! He has changed leaps and bounds the past several months and when people say the first year is a blur, I agree. This first year is even more of a blur than it was when Peyton was born. This really makes me sad! Even though I'm excited to see how he changes and grows. It's just kind of unbelievable to see how much he's changed already in this first year.

I spent a couple hours tonight, feeling overwhelmed by technology. I uploaded a bunch of photo's to snapfish. Not because I love the site, but I just don't have time to research and find something better and I'm so behind on printing pictures. $50 later, that's sorta caught up. Then I decided to save a bunch of pictures off of my camera and onto the computer, so I could clean off my memory card. Once I started on that, I knew I needed to get my act in gear and save pictures onto a CD, so I could throw them in the fire-safe box. So I literally spent an hour saving pictures from the past year and 8 months. It actually feels REALLY good, but I think to myself, how can I keep up? How will I feel if I forget to save some event or monumental moment so my kids can't see it when they get older? What if I save all these things in all these places I feel are right, and then realize, later, that these spots are obsolete years down the line? I have anxiety about losing memories and history! I freak myself out worrying about it. If I had time, I would research some more and come up with my game plan for archiving memories. I'm taking suggestions, so please let me know if you have any good ideas!