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I was reading another blog online (yes, this idea is stolen) that got me thinking. If your house were on fire, after kids and pets were safe outside, what would you try to run back in for?

I'd want to get all my picture albums and scrapbooks that contain my kids' first footprints and hospital bracelets -- those are irreplaceable.

Thats easy for me.....

My Dad's, Mom's and my daughter Brandy's ashes.

I would definitely scoop up as many keepsakes as possible - photos, scrapbooks, memory boxes, my daughters special baby, home videos and definitely the laptop, which has every photo we've ever taken on it.

Kid's memory boxes, wedding pictures, computer hard drive, filing cabinet, jewelry, music box my dad gave me that plays our wedding song-which he picked out for us.

I would have to get my daughter's turtle duckie for sure.

My son's baby book, the mouse my daddy gave me minutes after I was born, my father-in-law's flag from his funeral at Arlington, the external hard drive (pictures), and any other sentimental things I could grab.

One more ... the quilt that my grandmother hand-sewed for me and my husband as our wedding gift.

We all should be thankful for the technology these days. When most of us were little it was just about impossible to save some of the items we are able to save these days. We have all of our pictures and home movies on a family website. Even if we lost our hardrive we would still have those pictures on the site. I have about three or four cd's filled up with other pics that are not web site friendly,(labor pics and such...)that I keep in a fire proof safe that we bought about five years ago. It is big enough (five feet tall and 2 x 2 wide) that we keep insurance policies, birth certificates,social sec cards, baby books, extra set of car keys and lots of other important things inside.

Karen