I feel like the hole is too big to crawl out of.....sigh.

I think it's sad only if you still want to have those photos scrapped. Our interests change - I was obsessed with making teddy bears for a while. Now I have a small suitcase packed full of expensive mohairs and a collection of partially completed bears. I'm sure I'd still enjoy making them if I could be bothered to do it but I no longer have the motivation. I might come back to it one day, or I might not.

Maybe now is the time to reinvent how you do your scrapping, like photo books or slipping photos into two up albums. Or maybe now is the time to let it go without guilt.

Good point, Chinagirl828.  Just because something isn't your cup of tea right now doesn't mean it won't be again someday.  I find that every so often I'm scrapping so much that it begins to feel like a chore or an obligation, rather than something fun & enjoyable.  It's then that I need to take a break so that I want to do it again.  Just not too long of a break - because then I fall out of it completely, lol.

I do get what you're saying about the hole.  I am a chrono scrapper and am currently working on pics from 2004.  Yep.  11 years 'behind'.  I keep telling myself that I will eventually catch up because I take WAY fewer pics these days, so there will be less to scrap as the years pass.  But right now, it feels like I'm drowning.

And to top it off, I also do Project Life.  I do it mainly for pics of our every day life.  You know, the stuff that doesn't warrant a 12x12 page but I still think it would be cool to remember it?  I am working on 2013 (yes, I'm behind in that, too).  I'm up to the middle of May and today I realized that I never developed any of the pics that people e-mailed me or tagged me on FB with.  I go look at my folder on my computer where I stuck them all and there are TONS.  So now, not only do I have to take the time to click & drag them around and then upload them to Snapfish, I will have to redo more than a few pages of PL if I want to include these.  I want to kick myself.

Sometimes it just gets so overwhelming that it just isn't fun anymore.  I'm sure I'll feel differently soon (as will you), but right now, I totally get where you're coming from.

Is there any chance you can reconnect w/any of your old scrappy pals and set up a date to scrap?  That always seems to get me in the mood.  Maybe you can try Meetups and see if there are any scrappy groups in your area that you can join.  I went thru a similar period:  my kids were older and I had lost a lot of my scrappy buddies.  Then as luck would have it (no need to bore you w/the details), one of the ladies I had lost touch with reached out and we began scrapping together again.  We've been getting together regularly for the past 2 years and my love for my hobby has been rekindled.  

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the same will happen for you.  Sorry I rambled for so long!

If it's still something you want to do, then sometimes you just have to pick a project and jump back in. It helps me to have other people to scrap with because just setting a date and making a plan is enough to motivate me to sit down with my photos and pick something to work on. Inevitably, once I start looking at my pics the wheels start turning and I start wanting to do it.

If you don't know anyone who scraps anymore, what about people who do other crafty things? When I have my friends over, most of them still scrap but some bring stuff to make cards, one sometimes knits and another lady makes beads from polymer clay. I don't really care what they're doing, I'm just happy to have some company!

I guess you have to ask yourself if you want to get back into it.  If you don't then it's not sad.  If you do, there's a lot you can do to get motivated.  The first thing I'd suggest is changing your point of view about 11 years of pictures.  As another pea mentioned, you don't have to scrap all of them.  You can scrap whichever pictures you want.  You can do months in review layouts or even year in review layouts to help you catch up if catching up is important to you.  Lots of peas are scrapping pictures from years and years ago and they just feel like they have lots of inspiration instead of feeling bogged down and behind.  
I understand what you mean about reasons for scrapping, though.  I loved getting some 'me time' and feeling like I was recording my little ones' memories.  Plus, I don't have a scrap room anymore so it's a huge chore to lug everything out and put it all away.  I am definitely more choosy about which pictures I scrap now and I do a month in review layout every now and then if we had a busy month.  One layout instead of 8-10 makes things easier and faster.  

I scrap more of my current stuff, if I run out of photos, then I go back and work on older stuff. Who says you have to be caught up? I don't think I ever will be, but with the current (2015, 2014) stuff I may be close Ü

I agree with the others, if you don't enjoy it any longer, let it go.

On the other hand - stop feeling "behind". Scrap some photos that bring you joy. Only scrapbook what you feel like doing and you may just enjoy it again.

For me, it's about relaxing and escaping for an hour or so. I usually work on it an hour each evening while I watch TV.

I have never scrapped chronologically. I pick the pictures, events or moments I want to scrap and work on those. I've bern scrapping since 1994. My kids are teens and I still go to weekend retreats with my friends, it's moreabout spending time with my friends than getting a mommy break.

I don't think there is anything wrong for wanting to stop. If you wanted to just put photos into regular sleeved albums then why not?

I seem to waver back and forth between scrapbooking and cardmaking. In truth I get more satisfaction out of making cards and apparently it's obvious to my family. I get frustrated with scrapbooking because I think I should be doing it better. I also find that trying a technique on a card is less threatening than trying it in a layout. I think one road brings me back to the other.

My point is that if you truly are not enjoying it then it's okay to move on. If it's a temporary thing perhaps try making cards and then trying a layout.
i do not look at scrapbooking as something I must do for all my photos.  Would I like to, yes!  Do I feel obliged?  No!  Mostly because this day in age the average person barely prints photos anymore.  Not only do we print them, we scrapbook thrm.  We truly have much on the average person!  Lol

After a hiatus of about a year, I finally made an ABC album, out of chronological order. Each page has something that corresponds to the letter. I loved that it got me out of scrapping in order. Now, nothing is in order. I see a photo or group of photos (more likely) and scrap away.

No pressure. It's liberating instead of confining.

It does sound like you miss it, as Kristen suggested. Just get one photo and you'll feel your groove again.