From Chaos to Completion

For the second year in a row, I am one of the chairs of Erin's school's yearbook committee. If it sounds like a lot of work, it is. For most of the year, it's not that bad. It consists of being at school a lot with my camera to be able to capture things that are going on, whether it be special events and goings-on or just getting pictures of the different age kids in class or at recess. Last year we set up a separate Gmail email account so parents could easily get their own pictures to us, but many of them still submitted CDs of pictures. (For some reason, that didn't happen as much this year, which has created some shortages of pictures from different classes and grades, but that's another headache.) Early in the year, we ran a special project for the graduating 5th graders to have them create their own pieces of art to be included on the book's cover. That was completed in November, and from the proof we received from the publisher, it looks great!  Right now, though, for my partner-in-insanity, Kristi, and I, it's crunch time. We've been working really hard over the last few weeks to pull together and organize all of the photos and from them we're creating a 100+ page yearbook. The draft has to be ready to review next week! Yikes! Thankfully, I think we're in really good shape, and what we've done looks quite good. Tonight I'm taking the last of this year's photos, at the dress rehearsal for the Talent Show (the show itself is next week, so we use the dress rehearsal pictures instead), and over the next few days, the last of the pages will be put together. Next week, Kristi and I will merge what we've done into one final file, and in early April, it'll be sent to the publisher. We've already decided that once that happens, we're going out to celebrate - big time. I think we've earned it!