Wild Weather

It has been a wild few days.  It must be full moon or something like it.  Everyone seems to be a little off, Levi, Me, the kids at work.  It has been exaggerated by the fact that the weather has been crazy as well.  There hasn't been a day when there wasn't any rain at all.  Some days worse than others.

Levi has been a little ill.  It is getting worse but is still not bad enough to completely stop him.  Wednesday night, he played his double soccer.  As it was the last week for the Brisbane Roar coaching at school, they had an inflatable soccer field and a goody bag at the end.  Levi was stoked!  He concentrates really hard but was 'off his game'.  He cried a couple of times and when he tried to kick the ball it would go off track and he hates that!  I think that there were real injuries behind the tears at times but I also think that he likely would have had a higher tolerance than that!  So either he was getting sick or he was channeling an Italian soccer player.  Still he is getting there with soccer and really loves it, so that is a bonus for us both. 

This afternoon, the rain started to come down and there was a Severe Weather warning from the government, by radio and by text.  Our early warning system for flooding has improved significantly since the loss of life seen in the big floods last year!  You can now sign up for a text message alert and it has helped me out a lot.  I then got the next important warning.  My mother called to let me know that the causeway was at 0.35m and rising.  I called the school and had then get Levi out of class and meet me at the front of the school.  By the time that I had picked him up and driven home (about half an hour) the causeway was above that which I felt was completely safe.  We drove around the back and Levi and I went on a great 'adventure'.  We walked in.  Up and down a couple of hills and acres of mud.  Levi loved it!  It was pouring with rain.  Levi almost went over several times.  It was a wonderful fun activity for him and I loved that we had time holding hands and walking in the rain. 

However tonight his cough is worse and his asthma has kicked in further.  I am so happy that we came home and he is sleeping in his own bed tonight.  I can look after him better tomorrow, snuggled up on his own couch, in his own clothes (or more likely pyjamas).  I can not feel pressured to go to work because now I can't really do it on two levels.  I put him to bed early tonight and he went to sleep