April 29, 2009

Insomnia and Are you prepared?

Well it's late on Wednesday night and I can't sleep. I should be sleeping seeing how I have to get up at 7am tomorrow morning for my son's 2 year wellness check up. Yes, my son is officially 2 years old. He turned 2 last Friday and we had a small party with cake and he blew out his own candle to the surprise of his big sister who wanted to do it for him if he couldn't. She was not happy but forgive him when she got her rather large piece of cake. I think I can't sleep because I have a million things going around in my head because of my emergency preparation checklist. Sorry if I start to ramble and my thoughts don't make any sense. I tend to think quicker than I can type so sorry in advance. I have so many thought about if my family is prepared if something happens and we end up stuck in our house or we have to evacuate and do we have the supplies for that? I have lists upon lists of things I want to get like last night we went grocery shopping and got extra non perishable food. I stocked up on extra toilet paper, paper towels, Lysol sprays etc. I have 3 large bags of supplies just in case of a emergency but it's like I'm thinking I'm forgetting something important for my kit. Someone will think I'm going a little crazy about stuff like this but hey, I would rather act crazy and be prepared then have an emergency like this Swine Flu (sorry the H1N1 influenza A because we don't want to discriminate against the Pig) being a major problem and not being able to take care of my family. I want to be prepared and like last fall I had a major panic attack because I felt we weren't prepared so I made a list and one weekend we went and bought everything off my list. I felt a little better after but realized we weren't prepared. Far from being prepared but my family is now. If you go to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) website here :http://emergency.cdc.gov/preparedness/ there is a section to help prepare yourself for an emergency. I actually got my checklist from the American Red Cross but they are both the same sort of lists. I like to be over prepared and I keep adding to my kit and they say to have two week worth of food for each family member so I want to have 3 weeks worth. My children are unpredictable when it comes to food like after a growth spurt they can eat more and sometimes they don't eat a whole lot during the day. I know I will never be 100% ready for anything because my brain doesn't want to go there and really it's just depressing thinking about the what if this happens? and so forth. No one really wants to think about the sad outcomes of disasters. I don't like thinking about it so I don't but like I said it doesn't hurt to be prepared as much as you can and hey if nothing ever happened most of the stuff my family has from my shopping spree we can use for camping when the kids get older. So it's like a win win situation. I would do anything for my family even if it means I'm acting like a crazy paranoid disastrous freak who can't sleep and stock piling my emergency kit and making lists of things I feel I need to have. So my question of the night is : Are you prepared? Take care, Peace!!!

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