Now that I am officially “taking off” from the world of the academy (or at least letting my mind wander a bit from it), I have come up with a pre-Kate arrival goal:<\/p>\n
To catch up on the documentation of Will’s life thus far. <\/span><\/p>\n To accomplish this goal, I must: (Fingers are crossed that I actually complete any of the above before going into labor. Fingers are crossed that I actually complete any of the above before the end of the summer.<\/span>) I started today by completing the grueling task of taking the *many* assorted photos I have of him, looking them up through the blog archives and ofoto<\/a> folders to determine when they were taken, and write a date on the backs. Since I print and then give away all the “good” ones, I made an ofoto order to fill in some gaps.<\/p>\n When Paul is here and “relaxing” from the rigor of the housework he’s now doing, I hope to get him to master the video we have of Will. We don’t have much, the tapes are only hapharzardly dated and some cover months, and I have lost sleep wondering if we’re taping over older moments and\/or not taping enough. It would be a real treat to have everything in order — how organized and cool would that be!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that I am officially “taking off” from the world of the academy (or at least letting my mind wander a bit from it), I have come up with a pre-Kate arrival goal: To catch up on the documentation of Will’s life thus far. To accomplish this goal, I must:– Finish Will’s scrapbook to cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Finish Will’s scrapbook to cover his first year of life. (It currently covers 1 month.)
– Compile a photo album for the rest of the events in his life to the present.
– Organize and date the digital archives of his photos and videos and burn them on to CD.<\/p>\n