Ok so I'm sure that some of my friends and neighbors had
much worse experiences than I did this past week.
LIKE BEING EVACUATED FROM THEIR HOMES!!
So I'm going to keep this short and sweet, you may remember this post
from last year and possibly this one as well!!
It's just not a coincidence for me that this city has
experienced yet another wildfire requiring the
evacuation some of the residents near our home.
This time when I saw the giant smokey cloud I got an eerie feeling
and kept a watch out the window to help me decide
when I needed to call Shane.
One major difference this time was that my mother was visiting for the day
and my wonderful father was listening to the radio while working
and soon called to let me know that some of the
surrounding county residence areas had been evacuated already.
Double Eeerie when those areas were the first evacuated last year as well.
As soon as I saw the list I got on the phone to Shane.
My loving and supportive husband said
"well get those grab and go bags out and I'll be home as soon as I can,
we'll decide what to do then."
(awe he does appreciate my randomness)
What did I do while I waited for him to show up?
I mixed up banana muffins,
cuz every emergency needs banana muffins.
Yep I was simply trying to calm down enough to think straight.
I threw the mix in the fridge when we left and hoped
that they would
work out fine
whenever I got around to actually baking them.
Obviously The girls like the minni muffins best,
and I confess the one large missing muffin
was in my tummy!!!
Eventually we did head out of town
(we stayed as long as we could to make sure
Shane's dad was taken care of at the care facility)
and stayed in Raymond again with his mother
even though our community was not evacuated.
It was too creepy and reminiscent of last year to stay around.
As we were packing to go I got a little sad as I realized
how close we had come to finishing this project and it just stalled!!
I don't even remember why!!
Therefore for me this second fire was no coincidence!!
This was a loving heavenly father giving me a nudge saying
"hey remember this it's REALLY IMPORTANT for your family!!"
So here's a little update since my last preparedness post.
Here they are - our family backpacks.
lined up ready to be restocked after using the clothes.
One bag for each of us and the blue folder
is my copies of important documents.
We are grateful that we had them!!
Something that I did realize when we got back was that
I had also tackled another huge dimension of
our home preparedness our family First Aid Kit.
There are a few things I love about this kit.
#1 The easy access top for things you always need like band aids, halls, etc
#2 It holds Shanes MASSIVE first aid manuals.
#3 4 separate compartments that are easy to see into (less labeling/searching)
In the end my happy ending is that I'm back working on these,
even the first aid kit.
And I'm more close than ever before to having the joy
of a triumphant post when these are all assembled and ready to go.
(Hopefully we will not need them for at least another year!!)
