Unexpected Weather

Just like checking the weather report in the morning, I check the 'mood' of my son, Jake, who is 4. Unfortunately today, it was one of those 'weather reports' that you can't trust. It was just like looking out the window and seeing blue skies, sunshine . . . Jake woke up singing and smiling at 6:30. Then, he fell back asleep after coming into our bed. We snuggled - ie - enjoyed the weather report and planned for the sunny day! So I got up, began moving, smiling, making coffee, reading, and then I heard the thunder. It came from upstairs, in my room. It was more like a crack of lightening and thunder. It screamed, "I want Chocolate Milk!" "From Mommy!"

Uh Oh! Clouds are blowing in from nowhere! Where did these come from? It was blue skies a few minutes ago. Let's just wait out the storm, hopefully it will pass quickly.

"Hey Buddy! Are you just waking up?" I say in my sing-songy voice.

"I WANT CHOCOLATE MILK!" Jake says in his thunderous voice.

"Ok, can you ask nicely?" I say, in my sunshine-and-blue-sky voice.

"I WANT CHOCOLATE MILK!" He screams in his dark-cloud-no-chance-of-clouds-breaking voice.

"I'm not going to get it if you don't ask nicely," I say in my, Crap!-the-weather-man-is-wrong-again! voice.

Then, a tornado came through, and I can't tell you what happened because I lost my footing. But luckily, after that passed, the rest of the day was the calm after the storm.

Hopefully, tomorrow, regardless of the weather report, there are no tornados expected!