Thunderbolts and Lightening, Very very frightening!

Last Friday and Saturday night we spent some time in our storm shelter. Although it is not relaxing, it definitely forces us into slow down mode, as I cannot be cleaning house, doing laundry etc while also making sure we are all safe. We have a space under our stairs and entry way closet which is used for storage. But in the summer it also doubles as our storm shelter. It is a relatively big space for a shelter, and the boys can lay down on sleeping bags in there as well. We do spend some time rounding up various items. We have water, we get the laptops, the ipad, the phones, the weather radio. We also have the boys, the snake, the lizard, the bird, the dogs. It makes for some interesting coziness ;).

Luckily, we only lost a couple of baby tree branches, so everything could have been much much worse and we are grateful. Although I do look forward to peaceful evenings this summer that we can actually spend outside as a family!

As we post many of our pics on facebook now, I will need to figure out how to post those pictures here :)

"This is suck"

First a note: we discourage the use of suck in our house, but apparently Garek was in dire straights today.

It is interesting to watch as the boys master the skills of social networking in the neighborhood and also realizing that the day does not always go as planned. Today Garek was hopeful the next door neighbors would be able to play with him, but then they were eating lunch, then he had to eat lunch, then they had company. His response was to come into my office and tell me "This is suck." It was hard to not crack a smile as his life was unbearable for the moment. He then stomped off into his room and is digging into the lego box. (Likely he will come up with a creative structure in his despair).

We are truly blessed that the biggest problem in his young life is that he was having trouble coordinating play schedules today.