Your home is
on fire. Grab five items (assume all people and animals are safe). What did you
grab?
1. My boys’
baby albums and journals-A lot of my earliest photos (digital ones) were lost
when my old computer crashed several years ago, and the rest of those early
photos were on my ex-husband’s computer, so even in our digital age, it would
be important for me to grab and preserve the memories of my babies that I had
already printed and scrapbooked before I lost them, especially for the boys and
their future families. I also have a couple of journals I’ve written in over
the years for each of them, and it would be impossible today to recreate my
thoughts, feelings, and perspective of those days before they were born and
when they were very young and I was sleep deprived and figuring out motherhood
as they grew. J
2. My
computer-All the photos, blogs, and journaling I’ve done post divorce and new
marriage are on my current laptop. Yes, I’ve backed most of it up on various
thumb drives, but it would be quicker and easier to grab the computer in a
fire, I think.
3. Our Bali
Batiks-My husband and I took a trip a trip to Bali, Indonesia as our first
travel experience together. It was a yoga retreat, and it was fabulous. The 2
batiks we picked out together while there, I had framed for a wedding present
for my husband. These have lots of sentimental value for both of us. I asked my husband what he would bring, and
this is what he said, so I’d have him grab those on the way out! J Simply because I don’t think I’d be able to
carry everything I have listed here in my arms in one trip.
4. Our
wedding album and memory box-The wedding album could probably be recreated/reprinted
since I made it on Shutterfly, but the memory box of stuff would be a true
loss. The box has the ring bearer
pillows my mother in law made, some dried flowers from the day, our guest book,
and lots of other goodies.
5. My
Grandmother and Grandfather Remembers books and my Grandmother’s writings. Before my grandmother and granddaddy on my
mother’s side passed away, they filled out grandmother and grandfather
remembers book, and I have treasured them ever since. My Mama Gray (my dad’s) mom also completed a
book, so I have 3 total. Also, in my grandmother’s later years, my mom
discovered some of her writings in a binder at her home, and she saved it for
me. This means so much to me as I have
always believed at least some of my writing talent (be what it is) came from
her. She was published in a few Christian magazines, and regardless of
publication or not, she just loved to write, like her granddaughter, Susannah. J
You know,
it’s good to consider this because it helps you think about what’s really most
important in your life. And like a lot of people, I would keep mostly the
sentimental things that only mean something to us specifically. But, the bottom
line that I’ve discovered over the years (especially considering the TOTAL loss
of my storage from 1997-which included all my college memories, antique
furniture picked out for my room in H.S., etc…) is that nothing is really THAT
important. After all, you can’t take it
with you in the end, anyway. So, what
would you take, if anything?
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