The theme for this week in my group was “house on fire.” Before the explanation was posted of what this meant, I had been concocting all these ideas in my head about how I could make this happen. Could I make a little cardboard house and light it on fire in the driveway? Hmmm…. would have to do it during nap time so as not to endanger any children. Maybe I could find a way to use lighting to make a house look like it’s on fire? Hmmm…. I’m so not engineer-minded… how would I ever make that happen? And who has that kind of time anyhow?!? THEN the explanation was posted. We were to identify the things (assume all living beings are already out of the house and safe) that we would rescue from our burning house. Ohhhhhhhh, duh. I gave it a lot of thought and wondered what was so important to me that I could never replace it? There really wasn’t that much. The things I would save are pictured here. I would save Mike and LyLy first – my kids’ lovies – because they are a source of comfort for them and I would hate for them to be without them going through such a tragedy. And I hate to think of the pain and sadness they would feel if they were never able to hug and talk to their lovies again. Second, I would save Mutsy. My Dad bought this dog for himself – well, for his “inner child” if we are going to be completely accurate. (He was big into therapy and a little wacky at times!) After my Dad brought Mutsy home, I slowly started “borrowing” him during the weekends we were at my Dad’s house. Then Mutsy started to come home to my Mom’s house with me. And before you knew it, he was MY Mutsy. My Dad may have made some jokes here and there about Musty’s disappearance but he let me have him – probably because he knew I needed him. Anyhow, his nose is falling off, his fur is a matted mess and most of his paws have holes in them, but he still means a lot to me and is a constant reminder of my Dad. Last, I would save these two pictures of my Dad. I do have scanned copies of them, but I would want to save the originals because the scans would never look as good. (One added benefit of this exercise? It has put a fire under my butt and now I am going to make sure I backup all our digital photos/hard drives to an off-site source. I know there are online services that provide this, I just have to sign us up.)
My Everyday Life 