What do you do with pictures of other people’s children?
This is a dilemma I’m fighting almost monthly. You know what happens, distant friends and relatives send you birth announcements with pictures, holiday cards with children’s pictures (in furry red caps, no less), and those ubiquitous school pictures — often with fake mountains in the background.
Recently I looked in my photo albums and they are mostly pictures of my yuppie friends and me in trendy restaurants, at the beach, at parties . . . . Some are pictures from college, graduate schools, graduation ceremonies. Otherwise they are pictures of home renovation progress, this house or the last one, or they’re pictures of our pets, Jake, Foley, Fluff, Siame, or Merlin.
Nowhere in there have I found a space for people’s kids. They’re sitting in a pile under the TV waiting for something to happen . . . .
Should I keep them? I’ll surely need help labeling them. One newborn baby looks like the next. Should I toss them — I don’t quite know when I’ll be looking back at these baby photos. Do I keep them in their own album? I just can’t see the time I’m pulling those out, “Look! It’s little _______! Remember when she/he was born? In first grade? Getting adult teeth? On the soccer team?”
The truth is I’ll probably get one of those cute Martha Stewart type boxes, put them in that, then forget it.
foleydog
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