Thursday Thunderstorm

As the 1:00 hour rolled around this afternoon so did our daily afternoon summer thunderstorm.  Today it was actually worse than it has been being.

Storms dont normally scare me too much.  As the Director of 160+ kids in a daycare - I have learned to take a deep breath and know that my job is to help keep the whole place from getting in an uproar.  I have seen many a storms in my 10 years at Sunshine- luckily none of them were too bad.

I remember one particular year one of my younger staff members totally losing it during a tornado warning.  We literally had to shake her and scream at her just to calm her down.  It was crazy.  The kids -- well they normally do pretty good until we are locked in the bathrooms for hours or something like that-- then they all get a little cranky.  Daycare is not the best place to be when you have to "fasten down the hatches" so to speak.  It gets a little crazy!

My sweet precious Blaine on the other hand - is T-totally terrified of thunder and lightning.  Today was surely no exception.  There comes a point and time when I think he will literally begin hyperventilating.  It is horrible.  You know the horror in his precious blue eyes breaks my heart.  I remember thinking that a lot of it was put on -- you might would to -- until you look in his eyes - you can see what true fear is.  As his mommy, I would do anything to take that away from him.  During todays storm, while I was taking care of the daycare, I called my mom and let her talk to him to try to help me calm him down in the midst of all of it.  As she talked to him, you could see him taking deep breaths and I could hear him saying to himself "calm down Blaine - it is ok".

You know it is funny how some are scared of weather and some it doesnt affect at all.  Fear is a horrible thing, something I wish my little man knew nothing about!!!!!