There go all my fun summer activities for the great outdoors.

Not only did it rain and thunderstorm today, but we had tornado warnings.  I don’t live in an area of the country that is known for tornadoes.  So I was a tad freaked out by it.   The sky got eerily dark and the rain was whipping around.  And did I mention that I was driving in my car during this?

But obviously I survived.  Even though I did drive up over my lawn in my haste to get home quickly.  But shhhh, don’t tell my husband.

I had a lot of work to get done today.  And all of us were feeling restless.  There was much bickering and whining (them) and yelling (them and me at them to stop yelling).  Finally I decided that it was one of those times that the only way to rectify the situation is to step outside of it and shake it up by doing the unexpected.

So I proclaimed it movie theater in the family room day, which sounds a lot better than shut-up and leave me alone for a couple hours day.

I went to our local video store and rented movies (five of ‘em, just in case it rains again tomorrow)  Then I went to the grocery store and bought candy and popcorn.  I spread our picnic blanket out on the floor in front of the tv,  popped the popcorn and put it into the cute movie theater style popcorn holders that we have.

I managed to finish what I needed to get done,  completely undisturbed.  Then I closed up my laptop to watch The Bridge to Terabithia with them.  Why didn’t anyone tell me how sad that movie was?

And so it was the unexpected sort of day for me as well.  I never planned on laying on the floor watching a movie with my children.  I thought I had far too much to do to be able to set time aside for a movie.  But I did.  And I am happy for it.