I have over 10,000 plus digital photos in my IPhoto that I have not done anything with, and it stresses me out in those not so rare moments that out of control life confronts me. So even though I had twelve other things more important to be doing, I spent an afternoon, making my first ever photo book online to be mailed to me in hard copy this next week. In this digital age, I have fears that one day all those digital images are going to be gone, "poof" with no back up. My kids won't even have the unsorted shoe boxes of photos to delve into let alone albums. Maybe my kids will always be able to delve into the digital folders, especially if I faithfully burn discs or back up with external hard drive, etc. But 10,000 plus photos is already out of control! Anyway, meanwhile, Gabe and Lydia asked me take a few minutes and teach them how to make paper boats as seen in The Dangerous Book for Boys, and I was taken back into my childhood days of paper folding. Gabe and Lydia learned successfully by the evidence of a plethora of boats. They asked if they could paint, and I said, "Yeah, watercolors." They folded and painted to their hearts' content. They sailed their boats. I heard there was a horrendous mess in the bathroom with colors and soggy paper fragments that they couldn't deal with. I refused to look. Ends up they had used numerous tablets of Crayola bathtub water dye that we had had for many years. They wanted a deep blue ocean and ended up with a deep blue tub and a mass of wet paper pulp that they were afraid to touch because it looked like vomit. Marshal rescued them with assistance and Arm and Hammer (baking soda). I fortunately only got the pretty sight of water color boats on the stair as well as their drying dough art on the table.
I have over 10,000 plus digital photos in my IPhoto that I have not done anything with, and it stresses me out in those not so rare moments that out of control life confronts me. So even though I had twelve other things more important to be doing, I spent an afternoon, making my first ever photo book online to be mailed to me in hard copy this next week. In this digital age, I have fears that one day all those digital images are going to be gone, "poof" with no back up. My kids won't even have the unsorted shoe boxes of photos to delve into let alone albums. Maybe my kids will always be able to delve into the digital folders, especially if I faithfully burn discs or back up with external hard drive, etc. But 10,000 plus photos is already out of control! Anyway, meanwhile, Gabe and Lydia asked me take a few minutes and teach them how to make paper boats as seen in The Dangerous Book for Boys, and I was taken back into my childhood days of paper folding. Gabe and Lydia learned successfully by the evidence of a plethora of boats. They asked if they could paint, and I said, "Yeah, watercolors." They folded and painted to their hearts' content. They sailed their boats. I heard there was a horrendous mess in the bathroom with colors and soggy paper fragments that they couldn't deal with. I refused to look. Ends up they had used numerous tablets of Crayola bathtub water dye that we had had for many years. They wanted a deep blue ocean and ended up with a deep blue tub and a mass of wet paper pulp that they were afraid to touch because it looked like vomit. Marshal rescued them with assistance and Arm and Hammer (baking soda). I fortunately only got the pretty sight of water color boats on the stair as well as their drying dough art on the table.
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