Here we go again! Another business trip.

Last night, at about two in the morning, we had a bat in our house. Tom was showering and I went downstairs to lock everything down for the night. As I got to the foot of our stairs, this large bat dive-bombed my head. I SCREAMED! Heh. I quickly shut the doors to the kitchen and all but the pocket doors in the dining room. I then ran upstairs and shut all the bedroom doors (this made Aiden cry), and ran into the bathroom and begged for Tom to get rid of the bat… oooo! I get goosebumps just thinking about it flying around in our house! Tom laughed at me and was like, ok, I’ll get it in a minute. I screamed back — I was shaking! — and I said, “no… you rinse the soap off of you now and get downstairs and get rid of that bat!!” He said, “do you have my back?” NO!! I said. LOL. I opened the front door, and that was about it. I watched the whole thing from the front porch through the window. At one point, as Tom was strategically turning off lights and closing doors, the bat came up right behind him and was flapping its wings near Tom’s head. I SCREAMED again! So terrible. Finally, after a little chasing, it flew out the front door… like a bat out of hell! (Had to say it)… It was so fast, it was hard to even see. So thankful that was LAST night, BEFORE he left… otherwise, my poor father-in-law would have gotten an early morning phone call.

Terrential rains tonight… the basement has water in it. I am going to have to do some trench digging tomorrow to direct the water away from the house.

I _think_ the roof is holding up. There is a spot on the ceiling in my room that is a little darker, but I can’t tell if it is new or if it is just damage from the old leak. Even with a chair, I can’t reach the celing to determine if it is wet.

The kids decided to lick stamp pads tonight. I have no idea what posessed them to do this. Thomas’ face and fingers aren’t so bad, but Tabitha has red ink all over her face. It is permanent ink and it barely washed off in the bath tonight. It seriously looks like blood coming out of her mouth. YUCK.

Time to lock up… and hope there aren’t any bats.

I’m praying for Tom’s safe travels.
Not sure when I’ll hear from him. The time difference is that they are ahead by 14 hrs.