last night ellie and i had big plans to make cupcakes .. we were both needing a sugar fix and what better way to cure that problem than to whip up a big batch of cupcakes with homemade icing .. plus the fellas at work like sweets on saturdays .. so ellie and i are discussing what colors of icing we are going to make and what sprinkles we are going to use .. red hearts for noah .. pink hearts for daniel .. sparkles for mike .. no sprinkles for jeff .. he does not like sprinkles .. that was as far as we got with our discussion because cash points out the back door and says .. look momma .. there's a big storm coming .. holy cow ellie and i say .. together .. at the same time .. quick lets go outside and look at it .. so we do ..
that is some storm a brewing .. i am thinking .. well .. it has been like this the last few nights .. i am not going thru all the trouble to bring all my cushions in and scoot the furniture all close together .. the hope of still being able to make cupcakes is on the front of my brain .. we will be ok .. i don't know mom .. ellie says to me .. she has become quite the weather girl .. i think that it is going to rain this time .. ok .. i will at least put the umbrella down then .. ok she says ...
mannnn .. i say to myself .. we are not going to be making cupcakes tonight ..that is for sure ..
we will be lucky if we have cable tonight .. much less electricity .. what is jeff going to do without cable .. ok .. i say .. back in the house .. neighbors were driving by on their way to and from dinner and i was getting some not so nice looks for sitting out in my front yard with my kids watching the lighting and listening to the thunder .. i think that the neighbors wanted my children inside where it was safe .. so i sent them in and i stayed out .. oh mom .. ellie says .. i want to watch the storm to .. no .. you better go in .. where it is safe .. i will take pictures and show them to you ..
we are going to be pounded by rain .. i wonder if it is going to hail .. maybe we should put dad's truck in the garage so it does not get all beat up ..
ok .. that is not so much rain .. i think that we will be ok ..
ok .. now it is hailing and i see shingles flying off our roof .. and yes dad .. jeff put up your truck .. we are still ok though because the pool furniture is still on the deck .. just rain and hail .. we can handle this ..
oh no .. in the pantry kids .. quick .. the wind picked up and things started to fly .. like lawn furniture .. trampolines .. tree limbs .. sand toys .. life jackets .. floating rafts .. chair cushions .. plants .. cash says as we are running into the pantry .. "don't worry momma .. i will grab the oreos" .. one more reason i love that kid .. well while this micro burst of a storm descended upon our home .. scattering all of stuff everywhere .. and i am hollaring for the kids to go to the pantry .. jeff is in the shower .. he hears all this commotion and comes out wanting to know just what is going on .. the kids are crying .. jeff is dripping water all over the house .. booker and sophie are barking up a storm .. and the phone is ringing .. man .. all i wanted to do tonight was make cupcakes i say .. we will be fine jeff tells the kids .. who are now holding all the things that they hold dear in the little lives .. dolls .. trucks and cheetos .. silkys.. and bear and froggy .. and are crying .. uncontrollably because me .. their mother .. in a panic stricken voice .. shouted .. "to the pantry" ..
yes .. jeff .. you're right .. things are fine .. or they will be fine .. after we lug the pool furniture out of the pool .. fish all the cushions out of the neighbors yard .. pick up the broken glass from the table .. haul all the chairs out of the sand box and up the hill and put them back on the pool deck .. drag all the tree limbs to the burn pile and pick up all the other debris clutter that is scattered all over .. yes .. we will be fine ..
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