Photo Dump Confessional: A blog post in 5 photos (or 6)

I got behind in my photo albums.

I generally update these monthly.  It take 1 to 1.5 hours a month.  I do a family album, and then a small album for each kid.

I did my February updates on 31st March.  I actually only ordered the 2023 album in March as well, because there was a sale, and because I finally decided I wasn't going to proofread it at all or check for errors.  I definitely missed adding labels to some months. Oops.

I start every year album with a photo of each room of our house.  I had forgotten to take photos in January, so took them in March.  Oops.  I still need to add them to 2024.

This morning I uploaded all March and April photos to snapfish.  I also haven't done well about clearing out my iphone photos. I don't like using infinite storage, but it seems like that's what's happening.  At least I can get rid of QR codes and random photos of returns.  

Some photos were clearly meant for blog posts... and since I don't think I'll manage a good post anytime soon here's a short post in 5 photos.

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While packing for Sweden we got our our luggage for the first time in 5+ years.  Here is a suitcase we used to move to the UK in 2016.  

After pulling our luggage out of eaves storage eaves storage I decided we don't need to hold onto giant suitcases anymore. This one is a late 90s jansport.  We got it for free.  I think it has made a final voyage.

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Sweden was a great adventure BUT it's amazing how easy it is to get out of exercise routine.  I wasn't feeling well between the 26th and 29th and then Sweden was 23rd to 29th and then... it was easy to not start again.  

I guess this is the tricky thing with habits.  Days formerly didn't feel right unless I did exercise.  It started to feel really optional when I didn't do it.

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When in sweden we went to a toy store to look at toys.  Lily really wanted this toy. Why does a baby need a moped?

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When we first bought our house we thought it had a great garden because it has a pretty big garden (by UK standards.  Also, I mean "lawn" or "backyard".  Except I feel it has a small lawn and a small backyard... so maybe that's why we say "Garden")

It turns out, gardens that are above the level of the house kind of suck for kids.  I got tired of the continued terror of the kids accessing the garden steps and falling off onto paving stones and bought a baby gate which we put outside.  I know this gate will get ruined in a year, but also I hope we won't need it for more than a year.  It's nice that the toddlers can now toddle around outside without me standing in front of these stairs.

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Finally, it's light outside now.  This is the train station on my return from a work trip to London. It's 9pm.  It's dusk.  It's nice to be able to stay outside later.  I don't really need it to be light later (this will be about 10:30pm in late June) but right now I'm super cool with a 9pm light sky.