Thunderstorms

I awoke around 4, I think, to the loud clap of thunder, and within seconds, my 2 girls were in bed with us. Thank goodness we got mostly good sleep through the night. It eventually settled, but by that time it was time to get up. I now hear the rain and when I looked at the radar, loads of red and yellow with bits of green. Looks like a busy morning.

Well, yesterday, took dh to work since both girls like to do park day. We had to leave a few min earlier than normal for dh. No problem. Got him to work and then we came home. I again, had a hard time getting N to do her school work. R was trying and S was enjoying her morning. Just couldn't get N to do stuff. Finally told her that if she didn't cooperate, that when we arrived at the park she would just sit at the bench for awhile watching everyone else play. Fortunately she finally settled, but until after she had frustrated me. Last night when putting her to bed, she promised to do better today. Let's hope.

Yesterday was also my mom's bday. I had been trying to come up with a gift to send, but with dh busy with work, and me forgetting, it just never got sent. So hopefully today, I can get work on the gift and just send it. I was also hoping that my aunt would help my mom use the phone so I could talk to her, but apparently she can only talk long distance on weekends. They had wanted to bring her to grandmas, but with the rain, it would have made it impossible. So we'll see how this weekend goes. I miss her, but for my own sanity, I have to not think of her very often or I would be crying a lot more.

Back to the park stuff. We finally left for the park, only to have just 1 family there. Another family had posted stating it was too misty and muggy so they weren't going to be there. It was cloudy and a bit misty, but the girls still had fun. They ended up meeting some other new kids that just showed up. So it still turned out good.

Got home and rest for a bit. I was waiting for dh to call since he said it might be earlier than normal. Nope, no call. I was getting ready to make my normal phone call around 4:30 when I spotted an email from him stating he was still working, but would let me know when to come. In the meantime, one of our neighbhors came over to let me know he's found someone who might be able to help us with our porch. Let's hope. He might even be able to help create our small back patio. That would be nice so we can have our new patio furniture on it. While talking to our neighbor, dh called and asked if we were ready to come now. I said yep. So off we all went into the car to get dh. I had left one of my cell phones at home to charge and had my other, less used one, in my purse. Well, apparently it's so less used that it was less min. So as we were headed to get dh, a train slows us down. I decide to call dh and find out that I can't call. So we're about 5 min later than I wanted to be. He was a bit frustrated, but once I told him I tried to call and inform him, he was ok

We get home and he's back to working for a bit. Not a problem, he is on call. But it wasn't too bad. Later on after dinner dh asks to have the kids clean up sticks so he can mow. So off we all go picking up sticks. Not too many. But as we're doing it the mosquitoes are out now. Luckily not too bad, but just bad enough to annoy. Afterwards we came in and relaxed till bedtime.

Karie
www.kariesplace.robertcity.com