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.

I just realized I made a pretty major banking error. I was telling Lizze that we were doing much better this month than I thought we were. It didn't seem right but I checked, double and triple checked. This was very positive because it was going to help us get ready for our trip. As we were talking about it, my stomach sank because I realized why this had been bothering me. I paid a very large bill to a major utility and forgot about it. Between Gavin's medication change, planning for our trip and a major family emergency, I completely forgot. I had correctly tracked everything but that. For whatever reason, that payment hasn't posted yet and it's been quite a few days. I take full responsibility for this…