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A couple of Sundays ago, while at Sunday dinner with Gordon’s family, we were given an assignment. This isn’t a new thing for us to get assignments from Gordon’s parents. In the past our assignments, or homework, have been to calculate a budget for the board game CashFlow we had been playing, or read and do whatever assignment went along with the Dave Ramsey video Financial Peace University that we watch some Sundays. Usually the theme to these assignments is money management/how to make our money work for us type things, but this assignment was much different.

The current topic lately in the news, at church, pretty much everywhere is emergency preparedness. In light of all of the natural disasters that are going on around the world in Haiti and Chile, there has been an urgency to get you and your families prepared for such disasters. I know we have been doing extra things to make sure our family is prepared (well as prepared as we can be). Adding to our food storage, home storage, etc. Our recent preparation is thanks to Gordon’s Mom’s new assignment: put together an earthquake bag for under our bed. This bag should contain clothing, shoes, and a flashlight. Gordon and I went a step further (mainly because this was easier and pretty much already done) and we updated and put our 72 hour backpacks under our bed. These backpacks have been down in our basement in a closet ever since we moved into our home. Let’s be real…who is going to run down to their basement, get into a closet, in the middle of a natural disaster?!

Although they look absolutely hideous and I hate having things under our bed, I feel much better knowing that they are there.

I love having such great in-laws who care so much about us and give us these assignments. We think they are silly in the beginning and tease Gordon’s Mom about them, but we really do like them. And getting rewards for doing them is always a bonus!