I have my children's baby teeth, collected in the name of the Tooth Fairy and popped into a film canister for each kid. One time I found a note with the tooth: my daughter, aged five, asked "if I can have my teeth back one of these days." I kept the note also. One of these days she can have them back!

I have a frozen piece of smoked Puget Sound salmon in my freezer that my Dad sent just before he died seven years ago. I did this along the same lines as my ex, who years earlier had dried and shellacked a bagel after one of our trips east, saying he always wanted to have a good New York bagel in the house. So it is with my salmon. By now the fish is probably freeze-dried.

I have some priceless (to me) kid art. I suppose that is no surprise. They create some interesting stuff as they grow, and it is nice to have representative pieces. There have been some great notes over the years also.

SRS