The kids and I were in the center of our house last night between 3am and 5:30am. The kids slept, since they are used to this...we got alot of wind and rotating storms. I however was scared last night. Normally I am not, but I took a chance and peeked outside between lightening strikes and gusts of wind, and you couldn't see out there. There was so much rain wirling around and the trees almost touched the ground. I was really glad that the kids slept because I would have to have scared the kids by my fear. Normally that is not what I do, but I was terrified last night.
I have worked so hard since having kids, to have a laise fair attitude about the storms we have. I grew up with a wonderful beautiful mom who had been terrorized by her family about tornado's. I still have very strong visions of my mom screaming and hyperventalating when we had tornadic weather. She used to get us up in the middle of the night screaming. She was really scared. So as a parent, I have had to dilute some of my own fears about storms in order to keep from passing that on to my children. I was so happy last night that the kids were sleeping in the hallway on the floor during that horrible storm. It is an indication of how I have changed. After all, kids do what their parents do, mostly. The winds continued today, and it is still possible that we will end up in the hallway.
Spring has arrived!
Jyotsna
2 comments:
That sounds scary! Last night we had crazy thunderstorms here. Our dogs were terrified, but dd slept right through!
Hi Sarah,
We must live very close to each other. We are just one state away (not including the tiny peice of AR we have to drive through to get to your state).
We had a border collie that used to go NUTS in thunder storms. He actually ran away in one. : (
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