Saturday the older three kids were all sitting at the table making me Mother's Day cards. Although the element of surprise was missing, the thought warmed my heart. Gabby finished her card 1st and showed me. It was covered in hearts, next was Makensie and her card had butterflies. Lastly Brian brought me his and it was filled with all sorts of wild and colorful scribbles. I said, "oh, wow, this is a really colorful...picture, thank you." He then proclaimed, "It's a tornado, just for you." Nothing says love like a tornado. Much like their personalities, each picture was so different. Gabby is so loving, Makenise is a little flighty and Brian is definitely like the like tornado in our home.
We were on our way back to college after a fun weekend trip to a friends home. The windows were down to allow at least the breeze in since it was scorching hot outside and this car had no air-conditioning, in fact, we were lucky it ran at all. And with the windows down, we actually had a nice cross breeze with the holes in the floor board.We were singing to whatever song we could find on the stations in the middle of Kansas on some little mostly unknown highway. It was the quickest route between Manhattan and Wichita. There are many things in life to fear and many things to fear in the flat lands . I had been in Wichita on two separate occasions when there were tornadoes , but this threat was even worse. On a long stretch of quiet highway we enjoyed the beautiful sights of the pastures and sky. There were several tractors working in the fields and mowing in the ditches. Up ahead of us, there was something covering the entire road for as far as we could see. As we neared, it lo...
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Your comment about the tornado made me LOL! As a SAHM of 4 too, that was priceless.
Katelyn my 4yo loves butterflies too.
Have a great Monday!