If You Give a Girl a Camera...

she's going to want a new lens to go with it! 

I feel like I am living my own version of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..."  Photography is the most expensive hobby I have ever had (that I have paid for myself - pretty sure the horse-ownership thing cost a quite a bit more.) 

If you give a girl a camera, she's going to want a new lens to go with it!  First she'll realise how awesome her new prime lens is, but will then realize that even with it's low-light ability, it still doesn't work in dark rooms, so she'll want a flash and diffuser to go with it.  Eventually, she'll feel constrained by the prime lens and want something with a little more versitility and pay out a pretty penny for a lens with a little red line around it.   The nice new lens, however just doesn't go with her entry-level DSLR and she will want a new camera body to go with it.  She starts to come up with reasons that she needs the newest technology (HD video!).  She will want to buy the newest photo-editing software.  With all of the new gear, she'll want a pretty new girly bag to carry it in.  And on, and on, and on.

I'm pretty sure it is only going to get worse as the kids get older and I want things like a super zoom lens to take pictures of them playing sports and whatnot.