Let me know if it passes the test with your family!OK, if I’m being honest here, I’ve been trying to put together this emergency preparedness kit for the last few years.
Or most of the time.I only show the pretty pictures of my house, I share tips for the things that I know or that I learn to do really well.

Part of that is just the nature of this type of blog.It’s part education and part inspiration and those kinds of pretty, useful posts just fit it.Sometimes though, it’s a good idea to “pull the curtain back” and share a little more realness, just to keep things in perspective.

So let’s do that, shall we?.I got the inspiration for this post when my friend Erica, recently shared a post like this.

It was encouraging and real and fun to read just like all of her posts are and I thought “Hey, I can do that!
So even though I have an almost 9-year-old daughter and have been a mom for a long time, I find myself in the middle of all of this baby stuff again and it feels brand new all over again.I don’t know if I’m quite.
brave yet though..So then I started feeling a little silly and I drew this smiley face with a stuck out tongue on my washing machine.
I thought for sure it would come right off because everything smooth seemed to be so easy to clean.. Hehe.It faded it pretty good, but it’s still there, for sure..
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