On backing up your pictures

Most of you are probably much smarter than I am. A few weeks ago our computer went kaput.

We would try to start the thing and it would work and work and work and then go off again. It was very frustrating.

When we realized that it was probably gone for good, we were more than frustrated because it dawned on us that all of our pictures, our honeymoon, Abby's birth, her first birthday, first Christmas (you get the picture), were all loaded into said dead computer.

Now, we have several computer experts at our disposal, so we arranged to get the computer to one, and we had great confidence that the pictures could and would be recovered.

Unfortunately, most of the pics are gone into cyberspace forever.


We had some pictures on our camera that had never been taken off, and we have wonderful families who take just as many pictures as we do.

When Abby was first born, we were diligent to save those onto a flash drive, but as she got older, we got lazier and the pictures never made it anywhere but onto the copmuter and occasionally here to this blog.

I've had my classes praying that perhaps we would be able to find them, but we're pretty sure that isn't going to happen.

You would think that with all the experience I've had with losing things on computer hard drives, I would know better, but I guess experience isn't the best teacher for me. Maybe this time I'll pay attention and learn something.