72 Hour Kits!

Yes, my kids think I have gone crazy but it's been kind of fun!

My ward has been doing an Emergency Preparedness Forum

this year. They have outlined topics that started in January

and go to November. On Thursday nights I have my family

over for dinner and then Joey and his friend, Dustin and

myself, go to the meeting. (Keat went last time and

loved it!) Some of things that we have learned about is

water storage, making a solar still, how to stay warm and dry,

indoors and out, our 72 hour kits, as modeled above. I hope we

never have to use them because I can barely lift mine. (Ashley

marched around saying she hoped we really got to use them!)

I won't mention that she made fun of me the whole time.

One of the things we have in there is chalk. She can't wait to

write "WE ARE HEADING SOUTH". Isn't she funny! (I believe

the chalk was to keep my kids entertained when they were

little so I decided to keep it in there.) Lindsey just cranked

her hand radio and turned on music to dance to while we

put them together. Very entertaining! We also learned about

storing a 3 month supply of things we eat all the time. We

learned about gardens last week. This week is sprouting

seeds for Vitamin C. It has been a lot of fun and Joey keeps

me going. In a few weeks they will talk about dehydrating

food and he has all ready bought one and started.

(Mine will be here in a few days! : ) ) Anyway if your

interested the website is

http://www.fruithtspreparednessforum.blogspot.com/ .

It has made me really think each week, about what my

priorities are and how I can work towards being prepared for

hopefully, an easy disaster. (Is there such a thing?)

P.S. You may be thinking, why hasn't she done

this before? Well I had many years ago, but my 72 hour

kits had diapers in them and when I moved I

threw out most of my outdated storage.