Every mother is stuck in this paradox of wanting so badly to photograph and keep and preserve their

children's lives and childhoods with organized photos and baby books, but the very thing that

keeps us from doing that are our children. They consume so much of our time and mental energy.

It feels impossible to stay on top of their photos.

Well, being that I used to be a professional photographer,

I have set out to simplify this process and do something about it.

And today I'm going to tell you how I plan to keep my photos organized with four kids.

Music I plan to keep my photos organized with four kids.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 111.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

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I feel like it'd be helpful to start this episode with a quick overview of life for me right now.

And then kind of the backstory of how all of my photos were crazy disorganized and how I got them

organized. And then I want to share you my plan moving forward to keep them all organized with four kids.

So if you've been following me or listening for a while, you know I was a professional

photographer, weddings and families for 12 years. Everyone's images were so beautiful and they

were so organized. And I took gorgeous photos and I knew how to edit them

and organize them and keep them all backed up and do such a good job with everyone else's

photos but mine were a hot mess all of my personal photos they were scattered disorganized on

different CDs hard drives drives, computers.

They were everywhere.

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