What a weird day! It is raining, hard, here in SoCal. My pool is about to overflow. The water is seeping into my Master Bedroom, what a mess. The boys are trying to do the Man thing, because Dad is out of town. Jack and Michael were tossing buckets of water into the trees to try to lower the water level outside my door. Jack is laying towels and sopping up mess. Flash flood warnings, everything cancelled, too nasty to go out. It might as well be a blizzard with three feet of snow around here. So tomorrow is a school day. I am wondering if we'll have a delay, or even a cancellation, seriously. We are not prepared for this nonsense out here. Everything floods, roofs leak, cars crash, it's crazy. Well Happy Monday. I hope things get back to normal.
I enter this new week a little tired, but smiling. Why? No drama this weekend. We had sunshine, and sports, and cuddle time--- less the drama. Most families don't experience the intense level of emotions that the Rhodes clan does. Sure, they have the hectic life of families, perhaps some fighting, the normal mess--- perhaps a little teen hormone induced drama....but we have drama of a different kind in our house. The kind of drama caused by a brain that is shooting off crazy chemicals induced by years of trauma. When our son Victor is home, the whole world is a great big land mine. Saying the wrong thing, calling him out on behavior, or even suggesting that he not eat a 4th serving of ice cream can cause the the peace to recede, and for chaos to ensue. He is now in a boarding school for kids with emotional issues. As sad as it is that our family isn't all together--- I must admit that the peace in our household is a welcome blessing. We are learning more and more
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