ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE

My mom always thought of herself as a funny person. In fact, during her last few days on earth, she kept talking to my me, my sisters and my dad about a Journal she kept with important information we may need. She seemed to have planned this scavenger hunt with her closest family and friends for this notebook. One of her closest friend knew that the notebook was blue, the other informed us that insurance information would be in it and my children knew different hiding places where she kept it throughout the year – and don’t worry, it’s real. I knew because when we vacationed in Chicago together, she was writing down her favorite Filipino recipes that we’ve never attempted to learn.

Soon after her passing, we got more and more curious what’s in this notebook. We have looked everywhere! A part of me wonders if it would be written directions of what she would want us to do next or what to improve about ourselves. The other part excited to know what she was thinking off every single day she battled cancer.

We haven’t found this notebook…

This got me thinking that as parents, it is our duty to collect important information for our children. Nowadays, we have “the cloud”, but I’m old school when it comes to storing important documents – in case of emergencies 🙂 We need to keep hard copy of things as simple as a family tree (photos of previous generations that made up what we are today) to more formal documents such as birth certificates, home titles, etc. etc. This past weekend, my husband and I decided to re-organize our documents. Maybe this could help you too, here’s a list of private documents I thought would be important to keep safely in no particular order: