Storms

Drew had trouble falling asleep tonight, so after trying the other (easier, cheaper) tricks, we fell back on the trick of a car ride. And I felt very close to my parents.

First, Mom & Dad used to take me for car rides to get me to sleep. I don't remember that, of course, but Mom used to tell me that it was the only way to get me to sleep sometimes. (Yes, Mom, I got one just like me, just like you wished for me. *grins*)

But secondly, as we went out there was a flash of lightning. Yes! Lightning storm! In the Midwest, I might worry if it was only that. Here, I was not too worried, and as Scott and I also both love them, it was a very nice surprise. The next flash of lightning I made positive ooh-ahh comments about it. The one after that I explained to Drew that it was lightning and wasn't it pretty, and Mom & Dad like watching it, and Mom's parents did too.

We drove for a while, the little boy in the back seat with progressively more droopy eyelids. Not long before he actually dropped off (as far as we could tell), there was a sky-wide flash of lightning, and from the back seat came a soft, sleepy murmur. "Want it 'gain."

I assured him I did too, but we'd have to wait and see if there was any more. There was, but I don't know that he saw it.

We got home with our soundly sleeping little man, carried him in, and within a minute of settling him in his bed, the sky above our house opened and it began pouring BUCKETS, for perhaps a minute or so. It's still raining a little heavily, but not to the same degree as it was. Good thing we brought him in before it started.

And now I'm going to bed, but I really wanted to write this up before I forgot.