A magic cape

With a bright red blanket tied around his neck for a cape, the child peddled around the parking lot as fast as he could make is little bike go. He became his own superhero as the fabric fluttered behind him. He wasn't just a child on a bike anymore. No; he was flying, soaring through the air to save the world. From what, you ask? Only he knows.

Simply lovely

I had an amazing weekend of cooking, building friendships, music, visiting the zoo, and laughter. Ah, why did it have to end and leave me sitting in my ice-box (a.k.a. my office)? Rather than recount the entirety of my wonderful weekend, I'll give you only a small snippet from Mother's Day.

The praise team, made up of four middle-aged women, a middle-aged man, and a boy in his early teens stood at the front of the church throughout much of the early part of the service. When we paused for prayer, most of the praise team took a seat on a step at the front. The teenager crossed the platform to sit next to his mother during prayer. After it was finished, he held out his hand in a gentelmanly fashion to gently aid his mother in standing. The boy then gave her a hug (yes, a teenage boy willingly hugged his mother in public) before returning to his microphone next to the older man. It was a very short scene, but a lovely one because it was natural, unforced, and rather unexpected.

Enough!

Such a sound sleeper am I that two girls screaming just outside my bedroom door on my first night spent in my first apartment away from home failed to wake me. I also tend to find out about late-night thunder storms the next day. Not this time! I awakened at 2:59 this morning to fairly constant peals of thunder and bright flashes of lightning. I remember the time so clearly because the tornado watch was set to expire at 3:00. Evidently sometime yesterday afternoon/early evening, the tornado sirens sounded (so say my staff), but I never heard it, which is cause for some concern. I'll have to find myself a weather radio somewhere soon. I'm really starting to tire of the weekly severe thunder storms and tornado threats. I think we've had quite enough. Is this my welcome to Texas?