A Different Kind of Busy

A couple of months ago, I discovered that TONS of pictures were missing from past blog posts -- specifically between the years 2013-2016.  Being the rather UN-tech-savvy person that I am, it didn't occur to me that I should have paid attention to Blogger when it told me that Google+ was going away and that any pictures saved to that platform would be lost forever.  Granted, there was a grace period -- I think I would have had until April or May of this year to back them all up before they were gone, but of course I didn't realize I needed to do that.  I had forgotten that several years ago, I use to toggle back and forth between loading pictures from my phone onto the Google+ app or loading them directly to Google Photos.  I think I probably assumed they were kind of the same thing and were all saved together in this nebulous Google world.  I was wrong.  And when I found out I had lost so many pictures, I felt sick to my stomach.  Especially since our old computer had crashed a couple of years ago and I hadn't finished backing up my photo library before it died.  Three years worth of family pictures and memories were gone!

Well fast forward to today, and I am shouting for joy because I finally got my hard drive back from that old computer and I have all my pictures again!!!  

For the last several hours, I have been happily transferring the pictures to my Google Photos and going back through old blog posts to fill in the blanks.  I've currently finished up 2013 and I'm halfway through 2014.  And that's what the title of tonight's blog post is all about.  As I was adding pictures and skimming though all those old posts, it struck me that as busy as I feel right now at this stage of my life, I was just as busy back then.  It was just a different kind of busy.  I can't say that one or the other is harder or easier, they're just DIFFERENT.  Some things might be easier right now, but there are other things that are much harder.  So in the end, it all just evens out. 

While looking back over those posts, my nostalgia for the old days had me wishing for a time travel machine so that I could go back for just a moment or two and enjoy that busy-ness in all it's glory!  I don't think I knew then that I should have been more conscientious in finding things to appreciate about that specific stage of life.  Maybe it's just human nature not to recognize that "the good old days" are happening right now all around us -- or maybe it's just that reflecting on the past through the rose-colored glasses of today paints a much more glowing picture than what was actually taking place.  But regardless of all of that, I really hope I can find the happy and the peaceful amidst the busy and the difficult that are ALWAYS going to be with us.  Because time is going to just keep marching by.  And before I know it, I'm going to be an old lady and all my children will be scattered to the wind!  

Ethan's calendar -- he's pretty busy himself.