You think I would have learned by now but I never do. Personal history tells me that I shouldn't bother making plans for anything because something always comes up to force a change. I had everything planned for today and now it's all shot to Hell. Elliott woke up about 3 AM not feeling well. He's absolutely miserable and it appears that it could be strep. I'm hoping it's not strep but we'll see how he's feeling as the day moves forward. Mr. Emmett was up early and struggled with his crocs as it became time to leave for school. Massive meltdowns ensued and I swear to God my head was going to explode. Thankfully, he did get off to school. Elliott is laying down, trying to go back to…

As I'm watching the news today, and it appears that Hurricane Irma may create problems for our planned trip to Florida at the end of the month. Current predictions indicate that Irma will be at least as strong as Harvey was when it impacts Florida and the Carolinas sometime next week. If this proves to be true, that's horrible for the people in its path and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in danger. At the same time, this may force us to cancel or at least reschedule our trip to have Gavin's wish granted in Florida. I don't want to make the trip if Florida is going to be dealing with anything remotely similar to the people of Houston are dealing with. I'm going to speak with…

The kids are getting really excited about leaving for Florida. They're starting to sorta make plans for our time down there. Emmett's big plan is to avoid killer bees. That's a pretty good plan if you ask me. lol I'm figuring out the exact times of everything related to travel from Ohio to Florida. We have less than one month to get this all our ducks in a row.