memory is a way of holding on to the things you love,
the things you are,
the things you never want to lose.
[kevin arnold]

today, i found some photos that i had thought i lost, photos from a year and a half ago. periodically, i had looked through my computer, searching for the folder of images, only to be disappointed at not finding them. when i found them tonight (by accident), i couldn't believe it. i was happy...and sad. i was happy to have found the images but sad, thinking about how much my kids have grown up. my babies. what's happened to my babies? how is time going by so quickly? how can i make it slow down? i keep trying to hang on, yet the time keeps slipping away right before my eyes. i want to soak in every moment of my kids--the way they talk, the way the walk, the way they smell, the way they need me and my help, the way they give me hugs--i want to remember it all.
i will forever hold on...
with my memory
and my photographs.

the first two images are from 1 1/2 years ago and the last is from today.





p.s. don't forget to back up your digital photographs!