Oklahoma
It’s my first time in Oklahoma, and we’re getting the full Oklahoma experience: on our first day here, the sky was dark and rain was falling as we left the convention center. We were heading up to my parents’ house for dinner when they called to encourage us to hurry because there was a tornado warning for the area we were coming from.
Apparently the storm was following us, because just as we pulled into Mom and Dad’s driveway the omnipresent tornado sirens started wailing. We sat down in front of the news report to see what was happening, and my parents told me that it’s like Monday Night Football in Oklahoma. They just watch the weather to see where the tornadoes are.
Later that night, we were awakened in our hotel room by the sound of hail pounding the building. Mom had mentioned that as another Oklahoma hazard. Texas has venomous insects and reptiles, Oklahoma has weather.
Tonight at my parents’ house, the news featured endless photos of funnel clouds and people’s hands holding hailstones of impressive proportions, like the game highlights after a good football match-up.
We turned to the computer for more exciting photos: my newborn niece back in Texas, born just a few hours earlier.
Sigh…my sister is skinny again and holding a sweet new baby girl, and I’ll be getting bigger and bigger for another 8.5 weeks. So will my feet. And my hips are hurting a lot lately. Oh well. I’m pretty sure that the discomforts of pregnancy are God’s tool for getting us ready to face the discomforts of labor. At this rate, I will be sooooo ready by late June.
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Okay which sister?
Oh no tornadoes, how scary. Visiting via Kelli’s blog doing the Stop by on Saturday meme from my blog. Have a good weekend.
So you have a sister who gets skinny again just hours after giving birth? That’s not supposed to happen.
My hubby is an Okie. When he was about 2, his dad had to hold him by his ankle, flying him like a kite, so that the tornado wouldn’t suck him into the sky!
When he and his cousins first came to Texas and saw a huge pile of dirt, they asked their moms, “What’s that?” Their moms told them it was dirt, to which they replied, “That’s not dirt….dirt’s RED!” (For those of you who don’t live in Texas, we have brown dirt.)
Michelle,
It was Dana - she just had her second child.
Stephanie,
Maybe she’s not exactly skinny yet, but she’s a whole lot smaller than she was yesterday! It’s relative, you know.