And I also don't want family to feel left out of our lives, especially those far away because they always lament about the missed moments and large distance so there is this guilt about whether I am allowing them a big enough window in. i guess this is more about the sharing than taking though but anyway.

Anybody feel me???
I don't have a fear of lost memories but I do share the feeling about family feeling left out, ours is all the other side of the world, so are all our friends pre 28 years old - so I do take a lot of photos and I do share a lot of them.

I use burst on my phone quite a lot so can easily run up 60 photos in a minute.

Regarding storage, I really don't do anything specific, I use Google Picasa desktop to import from my camera and via dropbox to import from my phone - it stores them in folders according to date taken. That is about it for organisation. You can tag people and places in it, which I sometimes do, but haven't for photos for quite a while (I do photos of kids artwork and tag those in it though). There is a timeline feature in it so can show pics from certain time period which is useful.

I am now also auto-backup to Google Photos (part of Google+) - the photos are private until you choose to share, and stored at full-resolution (you get quite a big allocation of space) - it has a feature called Auto-Awesome - which amongst other things makes animated gif.s of photos captured in a small time frame - e.g. with burst. Some are lame - but sometimes the animated gif captures the moment better than the picture. At Christmas it had a feature where it made things sparkle - it was quite unnerving when I first saw the picture and saw Santa's eye twinkling.

I don't have enough faith in external hard drives etc. I have had externals fail, I reckon am less likely to lose my pictures using google+, flickr, dropbox or similar.

I don't print many - only occasionally to send to less technology savvy relatives. I have little interest in individual prints for myself. I did do some photobooks up to DD being 1 - but she is 4.5 now so I am well behind :-). I will probably end up using one of the services that takes the pictures from FB timeline to do one automatically.

I agree there are some activities that is better to be engaged in (concerts for example, and fireworks (because they are over so quick) you will never capture what you observe) - but also I think sometimes taking photos for me is a good distraction from interfering with what the kids are doing and getting involved (because I love playing) - they need to be left to do their own thing, and at the age they are at I can't just leave them at the park - so the camera gives me something to do, it could be reading a book, but for me it is the camera.