Have you ever seen those backpacks that you are supposed to have prepared in case of an emergency? I saw a segment on one of those silly morning shows where they referred to it as Prepared Patty's Pack. Pretty sure that show got cancelled. Yeah, I don't have one of those packs and should we ever have a true emergency that requires one I'm going to kindly ask the emergency to wait while I pack up. And my list would not match the experts at all!! I doubt Dr. Pepper makes the list but in my book simply being out of Dr. Pepper would constitute an emergency. In all honesty as long as I could take my car we wouldn't need the backpack. My car could sustain a small country for a few months if need be. Its fully loaded... with enough cheerios on the floorboards to keep our family alive into the next millennium. You can also rest assured that every single cup holder has a drink left in it. (Cannot believe I am admitting to this) Of course the drinks are flat and the Cheerios are stale but I'm bettin they're better than the fruit leather that prepared Patty's gonna be choking down.
I do actually keep a bottle of water in there, but its not for drinking. It's for washing dirty little faces just in case I leave my wet wipe case somewhere (frequent habit). I have magic kids. We can leave home with squeaky clean faces and yet when we arrive somewhere they all look like they've been eating dirt! Drives me insane!! And it takes us forever to get unloaded because after we rewash faces, we have to get redressed. While in the car my youngest, who is 18 months, has deemed it totally unnecessary to wear anything that she can get off. Most of the time that is limited to socks and shoes but lately she has figured out how to get her arms out of her shirt and still remain strapped down! We're hoping to get her into a Vegas magic act soon. But this habit is actually going to work out great for our emergency plan. We've left enough random pieces of clothing in the car that we should be covered ..literally.
Let's see what else might we need to be equipped with in case of an Apocalypse... lighters- check. I have at least 3-4 in there. Never fails when I deliver something with a bow I always forget to singe the ends til I am in someones drive way. Can't tell you how many times I've caught bows on fire in the car. It really freaks my family out :).
Batteries- check. Of course we"ll have to steal them from the toys strewn about which will create a whole new emergency. My kids are sweet little red headed Irish children and you haven't seen a fit until you've seen it from a red head.
I've heard that the state of your car is really a true reflection of the state of your brain. If that's true I need to be tuned up and detailed. This would be a depressing thought but I prefer to see the silver lining. My car is ,on any given day, just a big ol mess but it gets us where we need to go and its contents could absolutely save our lives in case of an alien invasion. And I know that somewhere is all the craziness of my brain, my great big awesome God has equipped me to deal with whatever comes my way. Which ever of life's little or big problems are headed your way today God has equipped you to deal with it too and He doesn't expect you to do it alone. And if your problems include being attacked by the planet Zoltron come hang out with me , we'll eat cheerios.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And He the Lord said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
That's good stuff for all us weakly earthlings.
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