British Columbia is burning.

The icon I'm using is the view of the lake, and the tree my parents named for me when I was born, out at their property. Right now, due to a forest fire that keeps getting out of control (and I'm never comforted by being told that a fire is under control, because one gust of wind and they whip right up again), my parents are about to go on evacuation alert. This is one of three fires in the immediate area around where I live... houses are being destroyed, some people have been ordered out of their houses with only two minutes before they had to be in their cars and driving (fast) away.

Getting a call from your mother to ask what irreplaceable things of yours are still at their house that you want them to pack up is one way to wake up, long night of taking care of babies or not.