After hearing about a house fire of my niece's boyfriends family member I got to thinking. We have plenty of insurance to cover our belongings and our home. They did as well. They all got out safely (thanks to God) and were grateful that the only real loss was photos that could not be replaced. All those memories gone. I purchased a little scanner a while back (several months ago). You can scan up to a 4x6 photo and it loads it onto a digital card. It automatically numbers them as well. I thought cool! I don't need to put them on the scanner, scan, crop, label and then save. I just run them through. Pop the card out and save to my computer. Well, I have it and that is about as far as it went. I had great plans of watching movies and scanning away. First I need to get all the stuff together, and that did not happen. So after hearing about the fire I decided I needed to take some action. So today I was taking a break from work and decided to watch a corny Sci Fi movie. I grabbed a photo box and my little scanner. I was able to scan about 300 photos in just over an hour. Not too bad. The scanner was getting pretty warm, so I decided to give it a break.

It is funny but I think I spent more time looking at those old photos and laughing then I did watching the movie. It is something I NEED to make time to do. I am the un-official family photographer. I have literally boxes and boxes of pictures to scan. At least ten times more than what I did today. Thankfully I switched to digital almost immediately when it came out! Family memories mean a lot to me. It is our history no matter how good or bad. Those old photos show so many changes and bring back so many memories that I had forgotten. I think we all need to take time and go through those old photos. You may just surprise yourself on how much you have forgotten.