With all the action Utah has been having recently with earthquakes, I decided I wanted to get a somewhat functional 72 hour kit put together for each member of the family. About 10 years ago we were helping some friends move and they were tossing out their kits. We gladly took them even though they did not have the food or all the needed supplies they had a bunch of weird stuff like safety blankets.
I have re-stocked these kits, stored them in space I wanted to use for
other things, and I have never needed them.
I have been tempted to toss them multiple times, but Murphy's law tells me that as long as
I keep them on hand and stocked I will not need them. That is insurance worth keeping!
As I was googling "food for a 72 hour kit," I was not happy with what I was finding.
I did not want this project to cost me a fortune. We do not need to have the comforts of home, simply the supplies and food that will keep us functioning and alive.
I rounded up what I could find in our house for the kits first.
Then I ran to the dollar store and
$13 dollars later, food for the kits was finished. It is not a 3 day menu you
would want to live your entire life on. If we are ever in a position to actually need it, my guess is we wont care that much that we are eating peanut butter and pretzels as part of our dinner. We will have much BIGGER problems to worry about:).
It was cold and rainy all day today. Both of the kids
managed to get dressed for the day, and were somehow back in PJs by 2 PM.
Motivation is easier to find when the weather is slightly more accommodating.
Some form of a to-do list is VITAL on days like today.
It may be short, but at the end of the day we all go to bed knowing a few worthwhile things have been accomplished.
Forget the fact that none of the cleaning or reading on the list got done today.
This morning for breakfast I decided to break the rules and have a social gathering with some friends of ours. Super dumb, but it brought a chuckle. So I count that as being successful. We all knew that school was not going to re-open this year. Still when the actual news came in yesterday, it was pretty discouraging for both kids. They are missing friends, hanging out, and being social. Ashlynn was having a lot of anxiety when I put her to bed. As we talked I related to her the importance of controlling her thoughts. When a thought comes to your mind, if it is something you cannot control, you train yourself move to another thought. She sadly commented, "I don't feel like I can control anything right now." We discussed how we can always control how we respond. Years ago I read a poem called The Lesson. A child wants their mom to always hold their hand to help them walk. The mom responds,"I have already learned to walk, so I make you come to me." The moral of the poem is to trust God in our trials. Keep moving forward and in the process, we discover we are learning how to become like God.
As I stood up to leave her room she said, "MOM, the spirit just said something to me.
It said the line from greatest showman, 'you can flip a switch and turn darkness into light.' " Then she asked "what do you think that means?" I asked her what she thinks it means? We discussed the ability we possess to control our view and perspective. We control our responses to life. The world around us, and the many circumstances it presents us with, can cause us to feel sad and dark at times. But we can find joy in the fact that we have the ability to choose our attitude and outlook.
We get to choose how we show up each day to live our lives!
(Apparently the spirit changed the words a little from the actual Come Alive song, You can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day.)
At Easter time I bought these evil eggs and I could not find them ANYWHERE. I have been eating healthy, and today I had a fabulous workout. As I was searching for food to put in the 72 hour kits I found them. I was so bugged, why did I find them now when I am trying to not eat sugar? Where were they when I wanted them??? I opened the bag, badly wanted to eat them ALL, and dumped them in the trash.
NOT TODAY SATAN!
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