Blessings

I am so blessed to have amazing friends. Over the weekend I took my 7 year old to a birthday party. This was her bff's party, very exciting. I had it in my mind that I would drop her off and leave and come back to pick her up. I had never done this before. Leaving a food allergic child at a party? Not me, no way! Well, I am very good friends with the mom so I felt like this would be the time to try. I went over everything with the bday mom. I gave her the safe cupcake, and the epi-pens (after a retraining that was requested by the mom). I then told my daughter that we(husband and I ) were leaving to run errands and that we would be back. Her eyes flew out of her head. She looked scared. I told her that everything would be ok and that bday mom had her medicine and cupcake. I kissed her and left before I started to cry. We didn't go far. We walked around the shopping center and then sat a restaurant right next door. Hey, it's a start right?
Later I asked my daughter how she felt about being without us at the party? She said "I was scared at first but then I got over it." Ha! Gotta love kids.
If you have a food allergic child, have you left them at a party? How did it go?

I am counting my blessings today after seeing the destruction in Oklahoma. It is truly heartbreaking and it got me thinking. What if something like that happened here? I know what closet we would hide in. I know that I would grab the kids, the epi pen bag, and their bike helmets if I had time. What would happen after? What if our house was destroyed? I need to make an emergency box. Flashlights etc. And safe food! I can't guarantee that we would have access to safe food. That scares the you know what out of me. Do you have an emergency box? What's in it?