It has now been 20 days.
I just want to go home.
I’m so done.
I have my littlest baby with me around the clock so that helps my sanity.
Not having my big boys with me is about to make me crazy.
I’m so grateful for my family and friends that have done so much; I can never repay them.
I am in awe at the friendship I made because of this.
Let’s hope I can go home soon and get this all behind me.
I promise to give a detailed post about my stay. You are all dying to read eevery little detail so sit tight. It’s coming soon.

Just a quick note!!

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Sunday started out just like any other Sunday, but I started to see status updates from local friend’s about fires in Pflugerville. That was really scary; especially when one of the fires was only 1.6 miles from my house. The wind was blowing the fire away, so we were never at risk, but if it had been a little closer? We would have been in danger.

We took the boys to watch local firefighters work at putting the fire out. It was really awesome to see Starflight working so hard to do what they could.

Photo was take by my friend Kelly Astley. Thank you for letting me use it!

The day progressed and more and more fires started. The one by us became minor.

I checked facebook first thing this morning and learned that the Bastrop fire had burned more than 17,000 acres and we had friends in Steiner RAnch and BAstrop that were evacuated. I also learned that Will’s kindergarten teacher came way to close to losing her home; firefighters actually kicked her door down to get her dogs out because they thought the house was a goner. The winds shifted and the fire stopped just a few doors away.

I immediatly knew I wanted to do SOMETHING. Big or small. I wasn’t the only one that wanted to help. Our community, our city, is really pulling together.

I found this facebook page and immediatly gathered a few things, we dropped that off earlier today. She is taking just about everything. NO MONEY PLEASE.

There are plenty of other ways to help out, if you can.

If you are a blogger, local or not, consider blogging about it; awareness is so important. If you want to keep up with updates follow these twitter hashtags:

The news is using #txfire

Local bloggers will be linking all posts together and using #txblogfirerelief .

The fires continue to burn. Let’s hope no new fires start today.

We all struggle.

Some of us everyday.

A few of us, sometimes.

There are people like me that have something that gives our struggle away, but remember looks can be deceiving. My chair isn’t really a struggle for me, but it might be for the 8 year old boy I saw at the store last week.

There are people like your neighbor that seem perfectly happy but you eventually learn she suffers from CFS or he has sleep apnea and barely functions at work.

No matter how big or small, we all struggle.

I want to invite my readers to share with me and everyone else what they are struggling with.

Did your child get the “wrong” teacher? Did your wife spend too much on clothes and now the budget is blown? Did you lose a loved one or learn a long forgotten classmate has cancer?

Every Friday night i will post and leave a place for you to share if you so choose.

Quick shots with phone. 95% done.

We went out to Kona Grill last night for my 30th. It’s probably one of our “new” favorites. We’ve only been there twice but it is sooooo yummy.

Anyways, I thought a family picture was fitting for the week since our first picture of the project was just the fetus. I had second thoughts when I saw the picture because I look like the living dead. That’s okay though.

Please excuse the poor editing. It was a VERY dark restaurant.

I have tried and failed at several project 365s.

This year I am going to try something on a smaller scale.

Several people do a Project 52, so I decided I would try THAT.

Sound good?

Awesome.

I have NOT taken my first picture, YET!

Will goes back to school on Tuesday and I have an doc appointment that day.

My first will probably revolve around one of those 2.

If you have one you would like to share please let me know.