First Storm Of The Season
The first rain of the season was expected this morning. With the strong winds blowing through the windows, and the drops of rain splattering on the ground, we were all given a rude awaking to the morning with the first storm of the season. It rained in the morning, followed by some gusty winds, and dry by the afternoon. How do you deal with raining shenanigans?
Backyard Shenanigans
Our neighbors have these HUGE overgrown palm trees with a lot of loose branches hanging, that used to always fall over to our side. Luckily, a few months ago, they finally trimmed them so the big branches don’t fall on to our side as much.
But the little branches and the berries from their other trees still continue to fall over. So when it rains or gets windy, our backyard becomes a mayhem with a chaotic mess.
Branches and leaves cover one section of the yard, while the berries tend to cover the other section of the yard. It’s amazing how a yard can be turned upside. Here is a picture of how it looked last year. It was so windy that the branches piled up higher than the dividing walls and filled one side of our backyard.
I Am That Mom
So when it rains, you see all these moms bringing out the rain boots and the umbrellas and have their kids run around and enjoy the rain. They splish and splash through the raindrops and the puddles like it was nothing.
Related: Backyard Fun
Well I’m an old school mom with an old school myth that you get sick in the rain. So what do I do with my kids? I turn the heater up and tell my kiddos to bundle up! I’ve always had the belief that my kids tend to get sick in the colder weather, hence the flu season.
Flu season is normally fall/winter times and that’s when the dramatic weather changes occur. The combination of the rain, wind, and cold weather is not something that I look forward to in the coming weeks so I tend to keep them indoors as possible.
Instead they can get some hot cocoa and a movie time. Especially with the Covid-19 in the high rise right now, I can’t take any chances of the kids getting sick.
Storm Related Quotes
~ “There is peace even in the storm” Vincent van Gogh
~ “I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder.” Amanda Mosher
~ “Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.” David Petersen
~ “No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don’t worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.” Iyanla Vanzant
~ “I love the smell right after a storm.” Elijah Wood
~ “Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.” Diane Ackerman
~ “The eagle does not escape the storm. The eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.” Jack White
~ “Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.” Mahatma Gandhi
~ “Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” Dean Koontz
~ “Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you; they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings.” Steve Maraboli
~ “But virtue is above the storm, and has an anchor sure and steadfast because it is cast into heaven.” Charles Caleb Colton
~ “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” Frederick Douglass