Severe Weather
I grew up outside of Seattle, WA, so I expect rain every now and then. Actually, I learned in Mongolia that months without rain leave me stir crazy and staring up at the sky wondering when I’ll get a good opportunity to not leave the house all day and read a book.
The rain in Houston, though, is like nothing I have ever seen. It rains in torrential sheets. It’s angry, fierce rain that causes almost instaneous flooding in at least 15 spots around town.
Last night, the storm that worked its way through the Mid-West ended up in Houston and traveled down to Mexico. At 8pm, I started to hear the wind howl outside the window in my third story apartment. At 10:30pm, the power started flickering on and off, causing all of clocks in my house to start flashing 12:00am and my digital cable to reboot itself at least five times.
In my new apartment, my son and I sleep at opposite ends of the small space. It’s just far enough that I get paranoid that something might happen to him and I won’t hear it. Last night I was lying in bed listening to the wind and the rain smack at my bedroom window thinking, “What if a tree branch breaks off and smashes his window and I don’t hear it? Then he’ll get up and toddle over to the window to see what happened, cut his foot on a piece of broken glass while tripping and diving head first out the window. All because I let my BAAAABBBBBYYYYY sleep alone during a storm!”
Clearly, I need get out more.
I went to Zac and picked up all 28 sweaty pound of toddler and took him to my bed with me. I undressed him from his too-hot pajamas after the power tripped the air conditioning off again and I slept with his hands cluching my arm and his left foot on my kidney.
In the morning, instead of being cranky and fussy, he woke up next to me and looked the happiest that I have seen him in a long time. He laid his head on my shoulder and we watched the opening of the morning cartoons together.
If it weren’t for stories like this, I would be thankful for the storm.
Houston, Weather, Storms, Parenting, Toddlers
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