Help! My house is being overtaken by my daughter's drawings!

Recently, my daughter has become obsessed with drawing and coloring. When she wakes up in the morning, she stumbles to the table and begins to draw. She pauses briefly to eat and dress and then resumes coloring until I pry her from the table and being the mean mother that I am, force her to go to school. When I return to the house after dropping her off, there is a sea of paper, crayons, pencils everywhere. So I go to clean up and am met with a giant dillema. What to throw out. She's quite a good artist and they are so colorful and I'm sure, dripping with meaning and insight into her psyche, and she's my oldest after all. I feel terrible throwing them out so the result is stacks and stacks of drawings in little piles all over the house, filling up boxes and bags, covering surfaces everywhere. When she comes home, she will most probably forget about the earlier drawings as she hastily prepares the next five hundred but it's the "what if". What if she comes and asks me where that drawing of her and her friend are flying over a rainbow? Or even more significant, where is the drawing about the Parsha where Yaakov is playing jumprope with Esav? So I keep them. All. Including the stream of pages that come out of her schoolbag on Friday afternoon (yes, I must (get to?!) stop cooking for half an hour to attend to the artwork).

One of the most challenging parts of the drawing epidemic is when she shows me the picture and waits for my comment. I learned that I'm supposed to be specific and notice details so I scrutitnize and analyze every single piece and part. I note how purple the boy's hands are, how many stripes the skirt has and I do this over and over, hundreds of times every single day. To the person who taught me this crucial parenting rule: Must I do this EVERY SINGLE TIME? May I not say just once "wow, great drawing!" and move on. And please, while you're at it, please give me permission to throw some out so the guilt doesn't eat me alive.

My plan is to have her pick the ones she wants to keep but we've procrastinated for so long that it will take us three straight week with no sleep or food to get through the thousands we've accumulated. Maybe by then she'll be done with drawing and then I'll miss it and beg her to draw me just one more picture for me to keep forever.