THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASHLIGHTS

Picture this: I'm in bed hacking my guts out (I'm still really sick), and about 9:30pm the bottom falls out. We got it all thunderstorm, hard rain, and lightning lighting up the whole house. I checked on the boys, and they are sound asleep. YAY! I go back to my room and lay down, attempting unsuccessfully to go to sleep, and at 9:35 I hear the monitor crackel, a door creaking. I sit up and look in the living room, and sure enough I see the streak of a little boy, tearing across the living room like a scared rabbit. Thunder booms, and he hightails it for the stairs looking for his daddy (who currently is on his video games with all kinds of gun sounds shaking the house, much louder than the thunder might I add).

I get out of bed and say Caleb, come in here with mommy, and take his little hand. He goes "Mommy I'm scared." I said I now honey, it's ok. So we both get in my bed, and the child buries himself under the covers, wiggles all the way down to my feet and is clinging tightly to my legs. How the heck am I supposed to sleep now? So, I try to coax him out, and lightning flashes. Caleb says, Mommy close the covers. Finally I coax him out, and lay him on Josh's side of the bed and we pray for him not to be scared. He says, "Mommy why is Jesus making it rain?" I told him that Jesus is feeding the trees and the grass so it will grow, because even the trees and grass gets thirsty. The poor kid tenses up everytime lightning flashes...so I decided to get creative, so maybe just maybe I could get some much needed sleep. HA! The next lightning that flashes he jumps, and I say...Caleb you don't have to be scared. Remember mommy said Jesus is watering the grass and the trees right? He muffles an uh-huh with the covers up to his nose. I said, well the angels are out there trying to make sure all the grass gets watered. But it's dark outside, so they need their flashlights. Everytime you see a lightning flash, it's just the angels looking around to see if the rain is giving all the trees a drink. Ohhhhhh he says, with wide eyes. The next lightning flashes in the bathroom, and Caleb says, Mommy there's an angel looking in the bathroom. LOL I said, ohhhhh as I close my eyes trying to drift off to sleep. Then the mother of all lightning hits and lights up the entire room briefly. Caleb then shrieks and says...Mommy the angels are shining the flashlights in my eyes!!!!!!!!! So much for sleep... We sit in bed and laugh and play until the thunder/lightning stops, then move him back to his bed where he slept soundly, and I watched the clock. I'm soooooooooooo tired!