For the first 50 years of my life, my perfectionist self mistakenly believed it was all about knowing more, getting it right, planning, attempting to prevent bad things from happening, and keeping all of my chicks in a row. It took me this long to discover that the JOURNEY is all that matters. This quote from Gilda Radner sums it all up:

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. "

Friday, February 26, 2016

Then and Now

Last week I began a project that will probably take me 3 months to finish.  Ever since Adam was born, I have kept the negatives for every photograph I've taken until I switched to a digital camera in 2002.  The negatives are all neatly tucked into pockets of a binder.  All of my digital photos are nicely organized into folders on my computer, by year/month/event, but whenever I want a photo of my kids when they were little,  I need to go to photo albums and scan them into the computer.  

I discovered recently that my photo scanner is also capable of scanning negatives, and the negatives scan into a much better digital image than trying to scan printed photos.  So my big job this winter
is to scan my negatives and digitalize those photos that are worth keeping.

As I am scanning the baby pictures,  I am frequently struck by how much my adult kids look like their baby pictures!   I decided it would be fun to pair up a few photos to demonstrate this.  
It is really amazing.
(Sorry, Annie, but I haven't gotten to your baby pictures yet).

Then and now...














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