Last night, we had some spectacular flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder roll through. This was the first storm that has woken up M in the middle of the night and it took 45 minutes of the three R's -- reassuring, rocking and reading -- to get her settled down again. The rain and thunder started up again today at lunchtime so we talked about the night's events again. I love her version of the story...
**The seemingly random references to trees, garage and ladder are due to the emergency gutter clean-out I performed on our garage during the lunchtime storm. **
21 July 2009
maddie's monologue
