Foiled

Like many New Year's resolutions, mine for 2009 were foiled once again. I was determined to stay caught up with organizing and printing photos so that I could stay caught up with scrapbooks. But with all we juggled as I freelanced and provided care for an extra babe, I quickly fell behind. But hey, that was okay as long as I could start 2010 caught up. So I planned for December to be my catch-up month and knew that I could do it. I wrapped up a project the first week of December and then began to tackle the filing and uploading of pictures for printing. I finished these steps four or five days before Christmas.

Walgreens was having an awesome New Year's deal where I could print approximately 500 photos for 9 cents each, so as long as I could meet that deadline, I was riding the high for the possible savings rather than focusing on how far I fell behind. The day I finished filing I went to back up the photos on CDs but ran into issues and decided I'd come back to it. Then, between the loss of Auntie and holiday celebrations, our hard drive crashed, losing every picture I had filed away for 2009. My stomach sank . . . but I quickly thought of how I at least uploaded 500 photos for printing. :)

So although my 2009 resolution was foiled once again, I'm determined to try again for 2010. And for 2009 I can focus on the brighter side and be thankful that a few photos were still on the camera . . . and that through encouragement and interest of friends and family, I also have the blog to retrieve certain photos and memories from.

Some of my holiday favorites:

Here is Vanessa on Christmas morning, drinking her milk and preparing to rip paper and foil.


And here Vanessa is ready to party for the arrival of 2010, blowing party horns made of foil. :)