I lay in bed waiting for sleep to come. I was doing what I normally do and letting my mind wander, reviewing the day and hoping that the blog post I held in my head wouldn’t disappear when morning came.
I was tired and soon my thoughts started to mush together and stop. Sleep was just about upon me. I took one more deep relaxing breath when..
CRACK POP CRACK
“OH MY GOG!” I screamed.
“Whoa, that was loud” Jeff said next to me.
Loud!? Loud!? Loud didn’t even begin to cover how that crack of thunder sounded. I was so startled by it that my body actually lifted from the bed. If my bladder had been full, I would have surely peed.
I have never in all my life heard a sound that loud.
In fact, the crazy scared part of my brain was trying to convince my rational side that it was actually a Trojan Viking giant with an axe chopping the house down. I was pretty sure that at any moment the house was going to split open.
“Will you go and check on the kids with me?” I asked Jeff.
I don’t know why but for as long as I can remember I have been terrified of thunder storms. It really is an irrational fear but none the less I am afraid. I put on a brave front for the kids so that they won’t pick up this strange fear but when they are not around, I totally freak out.
Even though it was dark I could tell that Jeff rolled his eyes at me but because he is a good man, he got out of bed and with me on his heels we walked around the house making sure the kids where all alright.
I was stunned that none of the kids heard the thunder crack. Seriously, these kids can hear me unwrap a piece of candy in the pantry when I have the door closed while I am trying to be sneaky. But an ear splitting thunder crack rips through the sky and they suddenly become deaf.
Kids are crazy.
We both walked back to our room and crawled back into bed as the room lit up with a flash of lighting. Jeff pulled the covers up to his chin and soon was back to sleep. I too tried to fall back to sleep but another crack of thunder shook the house pushing any ideas of sleep out of me.
It was then that I found myself wishing for something I have never wished for in all my years as a mother, my kids to be up in the middle of the night.
Yeah, I that’s right. I wished for my kids to wake up because trust me, the distraction would have been welcomed.
It was CRAZY – scared the shit outta me at 3am – and I just PRAYED the boys didn’t wake up; if they woke up at that hour, it would have been game over.
THANKFULLY, my crazy kids slept through it too! Weird!!
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You have just perfectly described why I do not want to live in any of those crazy weather Midwest states!!!!
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Yeah but your state shakes and really does rip apart houses. No thank you!
Oh, you should have come over to my house. You could have stayed up half the night with my daughter! She was scared of the storm and wouldn’t go back to sleep until it was over. My husband and son slept right through it.
I actually enjoy thunderstorms. I know it’s odd but I find them calming. House rattling thunder and all.
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Scary! It also makes you wonder if they would wake up to the smoke alarm going off.
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We have had the smoke alarms go off and the kids slept right through it.
Scary, I know.
I’m amazed my kids have yet to be woken my a storm, too! They don’t like it during the day and we’ve had some loud thunder overnight a few times but amazingly, none of them have been woken up so far. (I get scared, too!)
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I freak out over lightening. It’s just, the way it lights up the room…I feel like I’m going to see a figure at the foot of my bed or something. So I hide under the covers..
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That is exactly what I am saying. Now if the light was sustained….
I’ve always LOVED thunderstorms. The louder and brighter the better!
As a kid I’d be PISSED if I slept through one.
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BOOM!
Now I want to snuggle in bed during a storm.
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My bed is always open to a snuggle.
Er, wait….
That was loud thunder!! It shook you into insanity:-)
We had a crazy thunderstorm here too. I was so happy when my kids didn’t wake up, but even more happy that the cable didn’t go out! Ha!
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I wake up when lightening flashes, thunder cracks, a mouse farts! All because I inherited my grandmother’s repetitive nightmare of “someone’s gettin my babies!”
LOL Loved this post. Hubs falls asleep sitting straight up in the car with hot wheels being slammed at the back of his head. I wake him up when I hear that mouse fart. Just to make him check it out, while check the kids.
Have you ever seen the movie, “When A Stranger Calls” ? THe original will freak you out completely. You must be armed with pillows, blankets, popcorn, flashlights and at least two girlfriends!
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Um no, I don’t think I will be seeing that movie. EVER! I would never sleep again.
I live in Florida. We have the best wicked thunderstorms around!
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Bless your heart! I would have slept like a baby- i LOVE thunder storms… but I have had those moments where I wished the kids would wake up so i wasn’t alone…
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You sooooo captured how exact selective hearing is. My kids can also hear a candy wrapper being opened, even while the tv is blaring and there’s a ton of noise. But thunder….they sleep right through it. Wish I could sleep that peacefully sometimes!!
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I actually thought about stand at their beds just staring at them to see if they would wake up. You know, give them a taste of their own medicine.
Isn’t amazing what kids can sleep through?
Hope you had a more peaceful night tonight.
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We had some bad storms last night too. The wind was so insane I thought our house was going to fall down. And my husband was out of town! I stayed awake, worried about my girl all alone in her room. She didn’t wake up or make a peep – but I soooo wanted her to sleep in my room with me!
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I loves me a good thunderstorm, and I always sleep best – maybe because I’m all snug in my bed while a storm roars outside.
You should move to Wales. I’ve only heard one crash of thunder in the 18 months we’ve been here – not even a proper storm, just one big boom.
I love thunder storms. Really big ones that lightening arcing across the sky? Makes me happy. When I’m at home. I don’t like to be driving in the rain. Driving in the rain is the worst.
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I don’t like driving in the rain either. We had this weird rain, snow, hail mix the other day and it was scary.
I love thunderstorms so much. I miss the crap out of them now that I live in California. Maybe you should move here.
Um, no thanks. I don’t think I could deal with all the weather disasters that west coast faces. I would surely have panic attacks.
I have never experienced thunder like that on the East Coast. It used to scare me to death. I mean thunder that shakes your house? That’s almost unheard of where I live!
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The last time we had one of those I totally woke up and tried to wake up my husband. He was totally not interested and sat in front of the back door and took a video lol.
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That scares me too. But never enough to wish my children awake.
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I’m scared of thunder too…. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… i can’t believe they slept through it… AMaZING!!!!!!!
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I know what you mean, thunder scares the crap out of me too!
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I am totally freaked out by thunderstorms as well! The other night I was up in the middle of the night with our oldest when one came rolling through and I was totally scared and he sat there and thought it was so cool. Boys!
Maybe that is my problem. I don’t have the correct ‘equipment’ to deal with storms.
Aww, I hate that you are so upset by the thunder. But it’s probably a good thing the kiddos sleep through it, right?
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LOL – My boys can hear me unwrap a piece of candy with the door shut to the pantry, too! And, yes, I think my guy rolls his eyes when I make him get up and check on the boys with me! And, yeah, there are times, like during a storm, I wish the little guys would come crawl into bed with us to make me have to be braver.
However, I think it would freak me out more if the teenagers did that! LOL
When Eric is out of town I pray that the kids won’t wake up for any reason because if I am scared the last thing I want to do is get out of bed. Have to stay safely wrapped up in my blanket with my eyes closed.
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I too am terrified of thunder , but because my childhood home was struck by lightning one night during dinner while myself and all my siblings were home.
ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING.
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