I recall a few of my
birthdays were cooler than normal – requiring a sweatshirt or summer
jacket. Never a rain slicker! Not quite a monsoon but certainly not what
I’ve grown accustomed to. I can’t see to
drive on the roads. There’s not enough
light.
Corey
and Joh offered to pay for new glasses – but I don’t know that a stronger
prescription is really the answer. The
way the doctor explained it to me is that I have weird shaped eyes that just
don’t seem to let in the right amount of light needed for me to see throughout
each day. I’m certain that I will go
blind eventually.
Besides
I’d rather have spent the money on shoes or new pants for Roland or something
that seemed to take precedence for me.
And we have been blessed in major ways.
On
Saturday Jenna spent the day with her friend August. When we pulled up in front of the driveway,
we could see items being set up for a yard sale. When the sale was over, the family loaded up
a bag of clothes for Jenna. Three pairs
of shoes that appear as though they’ve never been worn.
And
last night my youngest niece also sent us home with a bag of clothes and a box
of shoes. And I really have been needing
shoes – so this is great!!
I
think the majority of shoes are too big for Jenna, but she’s at the point where
she likes wearing big shoes. Her feet
will eventually get bigger than mine.
And then her shoes will be big on me.
This
weather right now reminds me of a time twelve years ago, before Roland and I
were married. I had taken the boys to
see my mom at the place where she was working.
At least two of them had their heads hanging out the window and made
comments as though they were pirates or sailors fighting off a storm.
There
was also the many times that my family went on vacations – didn’t matter
where. We’d have rain. We’d have car problems. Often both.
The
wettest family vacation rain that I remember was the year dad drove us to
southern California and enjoy Disneyland and Universal.
It poured the day we went to Universal. POURED! And it is still one of my greatest memories.
We
had gone on a tour bus. When the driver
dropped us off, he told us that we had to be back by 5:00 pm or we would have
to find another method of transportation back to our motel.
Our
experience was awesome. No lines to wait
in. We got to see EVERYTHING. Universal never sold so many raincoats and
umbrellas on any given day. As we did
not bring rain gear and couldn’t afford six coats to wear, either mom or dad
suggested garbage sacks and so we put them over our heads and cut holes for our
faces. We spent the entire day going from exhibit to exhibit in our garbage
sack ponchos. It is a really great
memory for me and Corey in particular.
We
returned to the bus at 4:30 – the last group of people to arrive. It seemed that everyone else had been waiting
on the bus for at least two hours and were a bit perturbed with us for taking
so long. Hey, we arrived a half hour
earlier than the designated time. And we
definitely got our money’s worth. It was
fun!
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