Welcome!

I'm glad to see you here. I have so enjoyed sharing our family's adventures, school times, favorite recipes (mega-sized, of course) and other things with you. I thought that it may be time to share a bit about our thoughts on preparing for the future. No one knows what tomorrow will bring.

Proverbs 27:1 "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth."

James 4:13-14 "Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow."

President-elect Trump should be coming into office in January.  Right now, the markets are up, precious metals are down, doom and gloomers on the right are more optimistic, doom and gloomers on the left are riled up, and society is uneasy in general. There are riots and uprisings in some cities, while smaller cities and towns are mostly peaceful.  We haven't had a huge natural disaster in a while. We haven't had a large terrorist attack in a while. 

This is the time to think about what you would do in the case of an emergency.  That emergency could come in one of many faces: economic collapse leading to societal collapse, nuclear attack, terrorist attack, EMP, pandemic....somewhat more likely but still somewhat rare: earthquake, hurricane, forest fire, flood, windstorm, ice storm...or even more likely for the average person: car accident, illness or injury, job change or unemployment, divorce, major home repair. 

Something along one of these lines is guaranteed to affect almost all of us some time in the next year.  

Be honest with me. 
Would you be able to comfortably live in a week-long power outage? 
What if you couldn't get to the store for a week? 
What if your husband lost his job next week? 
Would you have enough food and water for your family to outlast these emergencies? 
What if the emergency lasted a month?  Longer?  
Remember, we're being honest. 

Consider these things and let's meet back here to talk about very basic preparedness.  

Let's face it.  We're not "Doomsday Preppers". We are moms and dads.  We are sisters and brothers. We aren't looking to survive a direct nuclear hit. We just want to be able to weather the storms that come into everyone's life with more comfort than if we hadn't thought ahead.  

We're not going to be so stuck on fearing the future that we forget to enjoy today! 

Phil. 4:6-7  "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."