On a wonderful forum I frequent there have been various discussions of late on taking care of ourselves and our families during snow storms, ice storms, and any type of problematic weather that would close down our communities and even our homes. These discussions have made me think of what needed done in our household to make us more secure if something happened here.

Tomorrow is to be a very cold day in our area. It’s not even supposed to get above 8 degrees. Add in the wind chill and it could be looking pretty wild from a temperature point of view. When it gets this cold and crazy I don’t even feel like taking my kids out into the stuff! I don’t even like to go out in it. It’s just not something I want to do. I’d only go out in that kind of weather if I need to.

Which leads me to one thing: I need to go out tomorrow. Yes, it’s awful. But I have to. Is this an adventure within an adventure, maybe? I’ll have to see how I feel as I freeze my bubbles off, but I must go out with my husband to return a rental car that we had for awhile. We had to rent another while our own car was being worked on.

Now that our car is fixed we need to return the rental and then take our own car out to drive about a few dealers to find a new car. Isn’t that odd? We fixed our car to get to a new car. I don’t even know if we’ll get any deals on a trade in at all with what we have, but at this point the idea is to just get a new car and make lives easier on us all.

And while that is comforting in some ways the real comforting feeling is coming from my preparations to create a safe feeling for my family in 2007. There are so many things necessary to have a safe feeling in your home. It’s not just an alarm, which is already here at this home; it’s a feeling inside you. To feel safe in your home, no matter what happens. That is what I’m looking for. I want to know that whatever may come at us we are prepared.

So I’m going to take full advantage of the Military background that I have at my fingertips by being married to an Army National Guard man and the World Wide Web out there using this lovely portal into it to get my home prepared for anything that may come our way!

While we already have a lot of preparations within our means there is always room for improvement. That’s where I’ll be really digging into what we’ll be needing for our home, car, and individuals of the household.

I’ll be starting those segments this week as I go step by step with research and actual preparation.