Because last night was so dreadful, and I’m still struggling with a cold, I decided there was no way we could go to our Tuesday Bible Study at Shoreline Church in Santa Barbara. They have a great program for the kids too, and Max especially loves going. So as I told him with my bleary eyes that we would have to miss it, he pouted away. About 10 minutes later he brought me a note: MOM I EM NOT GOIN BECUS YOO DIT LET ME GO TOO SHOLIN CH (Shoreline Church) This is sort of his ‘martyr stance’ – “I’m never going back because we can’t go today!” I just thought it was so precious – yesterday my first love note and today my first grumpy one. He bounced back pretty quick (by mid-breakfast) and was singing to his sister one of his favorite made-up tunes, “Lucy is so beautiful, she is soooo beau-ti-fullllll.” After several stanzas of this, Lucy yells, “I’m not beautiful now!! I’m pretty!”
Daily Archives: February 27, 2007
Another rainy night
Last night was another rainy sleepless rainy and sleepless night. Going to bed at 10p I joked to Toby that maybe we wouldn’t be able to hear the rain because the tarps were now raised up. At 11:30p I woke up to a thunderous drumbeat. Toby felt me wake up and said, “Can you hear the rain?”. I got up and checked the 2nd floor. It looked pretty dry and I saw only one area of tarps that I thought might be problematic, and that area was completely over new construction, so I wasn’t worried. The cloudburst passed quickly and I went back to bed. At 2:45a I woke up to deafening rain. I got up and trudged back upstairs. This time I saw many depressions in the tarps where water was not running off. I poked them with the end of a 2×4 and instead of the water running off the roof, it ran backwards and fell onto me. I got Toby up onto the second floor and she used the pushbroom to keep the water from rolling backwards while I used 2 2x4s to direct the water off the roof. We got back into bed at 4am. Rain is forecast again for tomorrow morning.