TORNADO!

Judd does not have classes on Wednesdays. So we were able to walk the kids to school together again. (tomorrow will be my first day going alone.) Once we dropped them off, we rode our bikes to the store to pick up a few things. After we got home, I was not feeling great again, so I went to lie down.

I suddenly was awakened by what I knew to be the tornado alarm (an extremely loud, steady siren that lasts for a full three minutes!) I grabbed my bathrobe and ran out of the bedroom. Judd asked what was going on, and I said "Tornado!" He looked out the window with his head cocked to the side and said, "I don't think so." The sky was bright blue, with puffy white clouds. We went down to the basement, but then a moment later came back up. We looked outside again, and a mother was walking her baby down the street, calm as could be. Another child rode his bike by our back door, as though nothing was going on.

I finally saw that Sara, our neighbor and friend, had her door open and was pacing around, trying to calm her younger son. So we walked over to her house (me in my bathrobe, which was inside out, so I couldn't even tie it) and discovered that the first Wednesday of every month, even during the winter, the alarm is tested at noon. Unless, of course, the weather gives any indication that there may actually be a tornado.

Judd thought my reaction was hilarious and thought it should be posted. Please, just remember, that I was sound asleep, and all I knew was that the tornado siren was wailing!