A Sunday morning waking

Last night was full of awful dreams! In the first one, Bill was driving and all of us were in the car (minus Matt, of course, because he is in California). For some bizarre reason, Bill decided to ignore road closed signs and drive out onto an on-ramp that was being demolished. We got stuck on these precarious concrete pilings. As usually happens in dreams, at this point there is no more car and we are all on foot clinging for dear life. Suddenly, the rubble under Helena shifts and she falls TO HER DEATH!!!! At that moment, the agony and grief are too much for me and I abruptly wake up. I spend a few minutes reassuring myself that all is well, everyone is safe and sound in their beds, Helena is healthy and happy.

When I went back to sleep, I was walking into my classroom. There was absolute CHAOS! One class of first graders was in the chairs, loudly working. Another class of first graders was on the floor, also being loud. There was a class of fifth graders standing by the front white board. Meanwhile, all there teachers were trying to get them to do stuff! In the dream, I yelled/screamed for all of them to SHUT UP! I told the teachers off for disrupting my classroom and ordered them to be quiet so I could regain control of the classroom. Then the Superintendent was standing there and I was apologizing for my harsh words and he said "oh, that's alright, I probably would have done the same thing."

What a weird night!

This morning I woke to an incredibly peaceful, warm, soft bed! I lay there for a while, enjoying the feeling of soft breezes wafting against me (we had the fan above our bed on all night).

Suddenly, at 9:00 a.m. (yes, I was sleeping in on a Sunday morning) a wall of sound hit the side of our house! It was the wind. It had arrived as though someone had suddenly turned it on. As the house creaked and groaned like the senior citizen it is, settling onto its foundation, the wind rolled across us reminding me of storm waves crashing on the shore. In fact, I lay there another 30 minutes just listening and enjoying the ocean temporarily outside my window.

Then, of course, I got up and discovered that my 'ocean' was actually wrecking havoc on the neighborhood! One of our neighbors has lost his shed and another has lost some shingling off his roof. This is blizzard wind with some snow in it, but not a ton, so I don't expect much accumulation of white stuff on the ground... just a littering of all the stuff the wind managed to shred! Fortunately, our new fence seems to be holding up so far!