Identification Booklets

This past Sunday there was an "activity" at our local pharmacy, Jean Coutu.  There was a police woman there with her sidekicks.  They were offering a free service to have your child photographed and finger printed so in the event anything happened to your child you would have a booklet with the necessary identification of your child(ren).

I was completely on board.  I thought this was a great idea.

So after church, off we went to Jean Coutu.

Both my boys were photographed, and fingerprinted.

The nice police woman went on to explain how to make the booklet "complete".  She said to "pluck" some hair folicles, seal them in a smal baggie, and attach it to the booklet.  As a proactive mom, of course I am going to make this booklet as complete as possible.

And then it hit me.  All this is being done so that if anything happens to my boys, we will be able to identify them or they would be able to use this infomation to help with the search...

OH MY GOODNESS, what if something ever happened to my babies?  How would I go on with my life?

The police woman told me to have these booklets on me at all times. If anything were to happen to my boys, and they needed this info, I would be in no state of mind to know where I kept these booklets at home.  What kind of state of mind WOULD I be in?  Would I be as helpful as possible or would my mind/body just shut down?

Seriously?  I have to think of this stuff?

I remember being in the mall with N. and after I paid for something, I turned around and he was G-O-N-E!  I still remember the feeling of the room spinning and I was in such shock I couldn't even yell out his name.  The room spun and spun and no noise could escape my mouth.  He had just gone around the desk where I couldn't see him to look at a toy.  Let's just say I hugged him for a really long time until my shaking subdued!  I just can not imagine how worst the shaking and numbness would have been if he had really gone missing.

I still think it's a great idea and I recommend that all parents should have one made up in the event of...but be prepared it stirs up a lot of disturbing and unsettling emotions.  Let's pray together that we would never have to use these booklets!