Sending pictures to grandparents

[Anonymous]

Not sure if this would work for you, but we are using a shutterfly share site, so I upload the good pics there and it's easy for all gparents, aunts etc to see and print without me having to send out individual emails, and it can be password protected if I want.

Maybe MIL doesn't get that you have (presumably) hundreds or even thousands of pics. You can't email that many pics!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't you just text them some pics that you take with your phone? Ignore the rest.

We do! At least once a week. But daily?

If you can take 2 seconds to snap a pic on your phone, take 2 more to text/email it to them. Yes daily. It's makes them feel like a part if your child's life. And will make them feel closer to you. Easy to do. Great benefits.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this would work for you, but we are using a shutterfly share site, so I upload the good pics there and it's easy for all gparents, aunts etc to see and print without me having to send out individual emails, and it can be password protected if I want.

Maybe MIL doesn't get that you have (presumably) hundreds or even thousands of pics. You can't email that many pics!

This is what I do, too. Turns out the grandparents barely log on, which would really bum me out more if random other relatives weren't picking up the slack and leaving comments.

[Anonymous]

I take photos on my smart phone. It's set up to automatically upload to my Dropbox account. Once a month or so, I go in and organize (I create directories named by date and event/place and then move the photos to those directories). After I organize, I take one link of the who photos directory and email it to family. They can go in and look through the directories of photos. Even my non-Internet-savvy 81 and 87 year old parents can view the photos. Mom then has a friend come over sometime after I've mailed the links and she has that friend help her download the ones she wants to keep. Every now and then, she'll ask me to print out certain photos and I'll print them out and mail them to her. Or often, she'll just tell me when we visit her or she visits us and I'll get them printed and give them to her.

[Anonymous]

I send pics almost daily to my mom and sister because I text them that often, and a couple times a week to my ILs and my dad/step mom. I don't use an actual camera, just my phone. I don't send every picture I take, but all of the good ones. I just email or text from my phone. It takes 3 seconds and they love it. If I had to download to a computer or print them out, it would be much less often.

If you have a picture worth framing, how much extra time could it possibly take to send a quick email?

My DH doesn't take pics so asking him to take over wouldn't work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't you just text them some pics that you take with your phone? Ignore the rest.

We do! At least once a week. But daily?

If you can take 2 seconds to snap a pic on your phone, take 2 more to text/email it to them. Yes daily. It's makes them feel like a part if your child's life. And will make them feel closer to you. Easy to do. Great benefits.

No way, not with ILs that complain about what they do get. Don't set up a situation where you'll get more complaints. Any day the OP doesn't get a good photo, she'll get a text asking where their photo is--no way. How does that help her have a good relationship with her ILs? How many photos you get depends on how your relationship was before...and in this case, best to send a photo every so often but not create any expectation of regularity that allows complaint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't you just text them some pics that you take with your phone? Ignore the rest.

We do! At least once a week. But daily?

If you can take 2 seconds to snap a pic on your phone, take 2 more to text/email it to them. Yes daily. It's makes them feel like a part if your child's life. And will make them feel closer to you. Easy to do. Great benefits.

No way, not with ILs that complain about what they do get. Don't set up a situation where you'll get more complaints. Any day the OP doesn't get a good photo, she'll get a text asking where their photo is--no way. How does that help her have a good relationship with her ILs? How many photos you get depends on how your relationship was before...and in this case, best to send a photo every so often but not create any expectation of regularity that allows complaint.

Good point. Also, OP may not be taking photos primarily with her phone.

[Anonymous]

It's your ILs. Let DH handle it. We got chewed out for not tagging MIL in DS'd pics on FB, even when she wasn't in the picture. Dh now tags her in a few to make her happy, I don't bother. She hasn't complained since then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Way to exaggerate! Your in-laws aren't looking for ALL pictures, they are looking for the good shots that you found good enough to frame. Send them the cream of the crop via flicker, smugmug or on a flash drive/disk. Get them a digital picture frame while you're at it.

They obviously just like your kids. (Sorry they have to put up with a priss like you.)

+1 If it's good enough for you to frame, send it to them. You don't like to share your pics publicly? Ok, fine. This isn't public - it's their GRANDPARENTS.

You seem ... oddly controlling of the pictures.

[Anonymous]

Send them an album on snapfish/shutterly once a month. It's very easy to upload and share, they can then purchase whatever prints they want. I do this for out of state family.
Having to order, buy, mail prints all the time would be annoying.

[Anonymous]

My MIL is the same way. I don't send her any pictures. If she specifically asks for one she sees at our house, I still don't send it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Way to exaggerate! Your in-laws aren't looking for ALL pictures, they are looking for the good shots that you found good enough to frame. Send them the cream of the crop via flicker, smugmug or on a flash drive/disk. Get them a digital picture frame while you're at it.

They obviously just like your kids. (Sorry they have to put up with a priss like you.)

+1 If it's good enough for you to frame, send it to them. You don't like to share your pics publicly? Ok, fine. This isn't public - it's their GRANDPARENTS.

You seem ... oddly controlling of the pictures.

LOL. It's HER kid. She can control what she wants. Not everyone wants their kid to grow up exploited on Facebook.

[Anonymous]

My niece and SIL live overseas. She puts pictures in a Dropbox account that the family all has access to. I get a pop up on my computer when new photos are added.

[Anonymous]

Not a bad problem to have. My mom ALWAYS wants pics of DD. She's just in love and can never have enough. Thanks for reminding me to send some more. I consider my blessed to have this "problem".