Lump in my throat..

We walked into the hotel in Florida and waited for the front desk clerk to check us in, she wasn't the most pleasant person to be working customer service.  She went on and on and about how she was having a bad day and everything was going wrong.  I wasn't really interested so I turned around to look at the TV so I could avoid listening to this woman complain, and that's when I saw the devastation in Oklahoma.  I was looking at the pictures of the mangled masses that used to be the collection of things that were people's lives, and that is when the words "Elementary school suffered direct hit of tornado, children and teachers trapped inside" scrolled across the screen.  I had to push the lump in my throat back down...not children in a school, again.

I managed to avoid watching too much news about Monroe, OK.  My heart aches for them, and my prayers are for them.  I care about the events, and what is going on there, but I also knew that back in Texas they were expecting bad weather, to include a threat of tornados, and my heart was sick that Bryan and I were going to be there with them.

The kids are having a grand time with Mammy and Kip, of course they are on their best behavior and putting on a grand show for their grandparents.  The boys are too young to understand the threat of bad weather, Rory on the other hand gets it.  She has a major fear of thunderstorms and tornados.  I guess that would be normal is you went through a tornado warning with tornado sirens and everything at the age of 6.  So my mom guilt really jumped into overdrive with every check of the weather app that I made.  

I'm pretty sure that I have driven my mom crazy with the "checking in" phone calls, and she and Bryan have dealt with my mini crying melt down.  We all made it...

While I don't think that mommy guilt feeling will ever go away, I'm so thankful that my mom understood and said "call as many times as you need to".