While my kids are getting back on track and life is going on, I am struggling with a really horrible sinus infection. The head pain, my ears are both hurting...and it is making me feel so tired and my vision is blurry at times. I will over come it and get better. Been here before.

What is really making me feel bad is the devastation in California. I cannot fathom what it would feel like to have a home and watch it totally destroyed. How far will this go? When will it stop?

The people that endured Katrina didn't get a chance...the water was relentless...it suffocated and engulfed. It was all at once, and yet, it lasted forever it seemed. Things have still not been 'fixed'.

These fires gave people a chance to grab and run...they saw it coming...the fires strike and move on to strike some more. Nothing seems to be able to stop the 'monster'. And you wonder...will it ever be 'fixed'?

I was discussing it with my daughter this morning. I told her that I am quite glad we are living where we are. We can get some high wind damage every now and then. We haven't really had to deal with flash floods like those north of us. Around here the building has been kept somewhat in check so that we have natural run off land, still. Too many communities have developed most of their land and there is no where for the excess waters to go.

We have another problem that is growing around us and I am pretty wary of it...keep an eye on my loved ones about it...we have many cases of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA...flesh eating virus) cropping up in communities around us...it is being spread in the schools. So far, there hasn't been any cases of it found in our schools or the JVS where my son attends. But many school districts around us.

You never know how things are really going to go. One day it is fine...the next day it could all be gone.