oh my goodness, it rained like hell today! worse than a typhoon! it was pretty windy, too. thank goodness i got home before it started to rain (we went to aeon this morning). it poured and poured. we even lost power for about ten minutes. it rained so hard that my genkan got soaked (oops) and the upstairs bathroom got soaked (oops) and the washing machine got soaked (oops). we gotta remember to close the little windows. the window in the bath was also open, but who cares if the bath gets wet?? we have a little flood and the neighbor house behind has a lake. oh, and good thing i closed the windows to the car, it got pretty wet there, too. now it is nice and cool, and not even very humid. sasha is taking a nap so i'm taking advantage and have all the windows downstairs open. i made banana cakes this afternoon (thankfully the power was out for such a short time!) and now i'm about to make champuru and honey BBQ wings. ah.

yes, i will try harder to start writing again. i have little energy, but i don't want to disappoint. i have trouble finding things to write about day to day life, because i think it's pretty boring. just the same old thing day after day. kids are doing well, except when hiro hits poor sasha. she does bother him sometimes, but at this point it's not on purpose. it's hard for him, too, and he gets lots of time outs. *sigh* the rain came back last night. i found myself going upstairs at 2 am to close the windows. it's still raining pretty hard. bring on rainy season!