Moosletoe

The title refers to a Children's Christmas book. The main character is trying to create the perfect Christmas for his family. He creates a long list and checks everything off as he accomplishes it. "Check, check, triple check - everything was going so perfectly perfect." Then on Christmas Eve his family notices one thing he forgot - the Christmas tree. Since there wasn't one left in town, they turn Moose (and his incredibly long mustache) into a Christmas tree. "Ok, so it wasn't so perfectly perfect..." is the ending. That's how I feel today. Last week I was feeling great getting everything on my baby checklist accomplished. So I decided to tackle some computer projects. I got all the photos from 2007-end of 2008 separated into different files for each year, each preschool year, each summer camp, etc, and backed them up onto DVDs. Check. Then I made 2 more copies of each to give to family members to keep for us. Double check. Then I cleaned the old photos off the computer. Triple Check. Everything was going so perfectly perfect. So today I thought I'd tackle another computer project - trying to make a blog book on Shutterfly. I wan't sure that's the route I wanted to go, so I was just trying out a few pages. I was trying to add the accompaning pictures, but couldn't find them anywhere. I mentioned it to Steve and he wondered if they were on our old computer. Instantly it clicked - when we got our new computer at the beginning of last year, we weren't consistant with which computer we downloaded the pictures on. So I had done all that work and there was still half the year on the old computer!!! Not so perfectly perfect. So now I begin the whole process again. This time with ALL the pictures - I hope. Why does it seem like I can never do anything right the first time? Well, at least I'll get them backed up eventually. And I'll have to reimport the year on my digital photo frame since I apparently missed a few months. Ho hum....